LIBRARY    OF    THE    THEOLOGICAL    SEMINARY 

PRINCETON,     N.    J. 
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LOVE  AND  GRATITUDE 


to 

OUR  FAITHFUL  TEACHER 

AUGUSTA  E.  STETSON,  C.  S.  D. 

Principal  of  the 
New  York  City  Christian  Science  Institute 


Incorporated  July  1891 


Second  Ediiion,  Illustrated 


G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 

New  York  and  London 

^be  IRntcfterbocfter  press 

1921 


Copyright,  1919 

BY 

JAMES   P.    B.   HYNDMAN 
Copyright,  192  i 

BY 

AUGUSTA    E.   STETSON 


Printed  in  the  United  States  of  America 


Jforetoorb 

This  volume  consists  of  letters  from  members 
of  the  New  York  City  Christian  Science  Insti- 
tute, which  Mrs.  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D., 
established  in  1891,  and  of  which  she  continues 
to  be  the  Principal. 

In  these  letters,  the  students  express  deep 
and  sincere  appreciation  of  their  teacher's  pro- 
found understanding  of  divine  metaphysics 
as  taught  her  by  her  Teacher  and  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the  Discoverer  and  Founder 
of  Christian  Science,  and  author  of  its  textbook, 
Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures. 

Many  hundreds  of  letters  could  be  added  from 
the  thousands  received.  These,  however,  have 
been  selected  as  representative  of  the  body 
of  students.  The  editors  feel  that  a  faithful 
presentation  of  an  inspired  and  God-anointed 


jForetoorli 

teacher  is  herein  made  by  loyal  students,  who 
have  intelligently  grasped  the  divine  import  of 
Mrs.  Stetson's  great  work  of  teaching  and  demon- 
strating, in  its  essential  purity,  the  Christianity 
of  Christian  Science,  as  presented  to  the  world 
by  Christ  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 


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In  my  Father's  house  are  many  mansions;  if  it  were  not  so,  I 
would  have  told  you.  I  go  to  prepare  a  place  for  you.  And  if  I 
go  and  prepare  a  place  for  you,  I  will  come  again,  and  receive  you 
unto  myself;  that  where  I  am,  there  ye  may  be  also.  And  whither 
I  go  ye  know,  and  the  way  ye  know.     Christ  Jesus,  John  xiv.,  2-4. 


0nv  jForeber  Heabet 
iJlarp  Pafeer  €tibp 

CAN  our  Leader  cease  to  lead  us,  whom  God  charged  to 
make  Him  known? 
Shall  His  wisdom  be  unjustified  forever  of  His  own? 
Do  ye  doubt  her  destination,  witnessing  the  path  she  trod. 
And  deny  her  living  presence,  knowing  that  she  lives  in  God? 

Oh,  awake,  ye  faithless-hearted,  over  whom  the  angels  weep! 
'Tis  the  hour  for  prayer  and  watching.    Break  your  sodden, 

sense-lulled  sleep! 
If  ye  shrink  from  Jordan's  rising,  when  the  tide  is  running  slow, 
Can  ye  face  the  furious  fear-floods,  when  the  waters  overflow? 

Up!    What  recks  the  ancient  folk- theme,  treating  man  as 

thing  of  dust, 
And  his  wondrous  thoughts  as  brain-throbs,  quiv'ring  through 

a  matter  crust  I 
Let  it  not  benumb,  but  spur  you  to  more  fervor  in  the  fight 
'Tween  the  myths  of  death  and  darkness,  and  the  truths  of 

Life  and  light. 

There  was  never  life  in  matter.    Ye  have  said  it !    It  is  truth ! 
Age  and  death  are  sense-illusions,  false  as  sin  deluded  youth. 

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0  ^rihute  of  Hobe 

Ye  acknowledged  this,  her  teaching,  who  discerned  the  Mas- 
ter's word. 

Shall  the  test,  then,  find  you  wanting?  Having  ears,  have  ye 
not  heard? 

She  who  traced  the  Master's  footsteps  from  the  sense-vale  up 

to  Soul 
Has  not  lost  her  sore- won  mast'ry,  has  not  failed  to  win  the 

goal, 
And  to  count  her  gone  and  silent  would  Life's  very  law  disown. 
Having  been  so  long  time  with  you,  is  she  still  so  dimly  known? 

If  ye  loved  her  voice,  which  called  you  from  the  valley  of  your 

pain 
To  the  hills  of  hope  and  healing,  if  your  loving  was  not  vain, 
Ye  will  never  cease  to  listen  for  her  God-inspired  call. 
Still  and  small,  yet,  oh,  so  potent,  "God  and  man  is  one  and 

all."^ 

— Alice  Morgan  Harrison. 

» "  Principle  and  its  idea  is  one,  and  this  one  is  God,  omnipo- 
tent, omniscient,  and  omnipresent  Being"  {Science  and 
Health,  p.  465). 


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Taken  December.  1917 


Darling  rise  each  hour;  now  is   the  resurrection  mom   and    I 
want  Augusta  to  be  my  Mary.    Lovingly  ever  thine.     M.  B.  Eddy. 
VHal  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  pages  402,  403. 


2Co  ausufiita  €.  ^tetsfon,  C.  g).  ©. 

Love-crowned  bearer  of  our  Leader's  sacred  charge  to  feed 

her  sheep, 
You  have  proved  a  faithful  steward  of  the  flock  she  bade  you 

keep. 
You  have  fed  our  hungry  longings  with  the  substance  of  the 

Word, 
And  we  rise  to  call  you  blessed,  for  our  hearts  are  deeply 

stirred. 

You  have  faced  sin's  fullest  fury  with  a  meekness  so  divine. 
That  affliction's  bitter  waters  turn  to  inspiration's  wine. 
Firm  you  stand  before  your  students  as  the  "remnant  of  her 

seed," 
And  we  rise  to  call  you  faithful  to  your  God  in  word  and  deed. 

You  have  dared  to  be  a  Daniel!     When  you  turned  your 

fearless  face 
Toward  the  dawning  demonstration  of  Love's  all-sufficient 

grace, 
Conquered  beasts  of  carnal  concepts  could  not  harm  you  in 

their  den. 
And  we  rise  to  hail  you  victor  of  the  fear  of  mortal  men. 

Quickened  by  your  overcoming,  from  our  hearts  we  say  with 
you: 

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la  tCribute  of  TLobt 

"Father-Mother  God,  'Forgive  them;  for  they  know  not  what 

they  do.'" 
Nothing  can  obscure  Love's  allness!    Earth's  poor  dreamers 

will  awake ! 
And  we  praise  your  pure  example  of  this  faith  no  foe  can  shake. 

True  disciple  of  the  Master,  leaving  all  to  lift  mankind, 
You  are  taking  ev'ry  footstep  through  the  matter-dream  to 

Mind, 
Close  and  closer  to  God's  chosen, »  pressing  on  from  sense  to 

sight, 
And  your  loyalty's  bright  marvel  is  a  heaven-reaching  light. 

Dear  defender  of  pure  Science,  which  our  holy  Leader  taught, 
Immortality's  white  banner  leads  the  good  fight  you  have 

fought! 
Rise  we  to  the  Church  Triumphant,  in  the  light  your  teaching 

gives. 
For  we  hear  your  Soul-bom  message  that  our  Leader  ever  lives ! 

— Alice  Morgan  Harrison, 

November,  191 5. 

» Mary  Baker  Eddy. 


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ContentjB( 


Uttttvfif  Cxcerptsi,  0itiia^e^,  from 
iflarp  S^afeer  Clilip 

Dedicatory  Message  to  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 

New  York  City 13 

Facsimile  Letter Facing  15 

August  Thirtieth,   1909.     (Mrs.  Eddy's  last  letter  to 

Mrs.  Stetson) 42 

"You  keep  the  Golden  Rule" 52 

"  Crown  of  Diamonds  " 53 

"Armaments  of  concealed  warfare" 82 

"Corner-stone"  Letter 93, 186 

"  Mother  appreciates  your  footsteps  " 108 

Dedicatory  Message  to  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 

Wilmington,  N.  C 120 

"The  Way  of  Wisdom" 123 

"  One  thing  in  my  haste  was  forgotten  " Facing  184 

"My  beloved  Student,"  March  23,  1903 185 

"  Mrs.  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.  S.D.,  and  the  practitioners 

of  the  R.  R.  of  her  church,  N.  Y.  N.  Y." 191 

"  What  if  your  church  edifice,"  November,  1903 230 

Facsimile  Letters Facing  242 


Contents 

"Where  Shall  Wisdom  be  Found  ?  "  by  First  Church  of 

Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City 125 

"  Resolution  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  First  Church  of 

Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City" 218 

Letter  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  First  Church  of  Christ, 

Scientist,  New  York  City,  by  Augusta  E.  Stetson. .     222 


ILetterg,  etc. 

Introductory  Letter  by  Gertrude  Lois  Belser 13 

Sibyl  Marvin  Huse 23 

"Statement  as  to  Christian  Science,"  by  James  P.  B. 

Hyndman 35 

Elizabeth  Hebert  Childs 4^ 

Arnold  Blome 55 

Picture  of  Shield  on  Mrs.  Stetson's  house ;  .  Facing  73 

Kitty  Cheatham 75 

Roy  Holland  Seward i  n 

Ella  Weill "5 

George  E.  Armstrong I37 

Mary  H.  Freshman I43 

Alice  F.  Brown I59 

Anna  A.  Holden I73 

Mary  E.  Pearson 183 

Mary  Ray  Pinney I95 

Edwin  F.  Hatfield 213 

Joseph  B.  Whitney 215 

WilHam  H.  Taylor 221 

John  Franklin  Crowell,  Ph.D 235 

Amelia  S.  Rowbotham,  Cfatherine  B.  Gillpatrick,  Jessie 

Tuttle  Colton,  Margaret  Duncan 241 

Arnold  Blome 243 

Sibyl  Marvin  Huse 261 

Vida  Milholland 275 

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Contents; 
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"Our  Forever  Leader,"  by  Alice  Morgan  Harrison 5 

"To  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D.,"  by  Alice  Morgan 

Harrison 7 

"Our  America,"  The  National  Anthem  (last  verse),  by 

Alice  Morgan  Harrison , 78 

"Christ  and   Christmas"    (one  verse),    "Thus   olden 

faith's  pale  star  now  blends,"  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy  85 
"Spring  Greeting"  (one  verse),  "The  bird  of  hope  is 

singing,"  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy 91 

"Extempore,"  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy 91.  ^57 

"To  the  Big  Children,"  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy 104 

"The  Oak  on  the  Mountain's  Summit"  (one  verse), 

"Faithful  and  patient  be  my  life  as  thine,"  by 

Mary  Baker  Eddy 142 

"The  Harvest  Song  "  (one  verse),  "  Love's  sweet  harvest 

home  song,"  by  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D 198 

"Augusta  E.  Stetson,  Our  Teacher,"  by  Alice  Morgan 

Harrison 253 

"  Our  Leader  Lives,"  by  Alice  Morgan  Harrison 255 

"My  Ain  Countrie,"  by  James  P.  B,  Hyndman 257 

"Laus  Deo!"  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy 273 

Quotations  on  Music  from  the  Holy  Bible  and 

Mary  Baker  Eddy's  Writings 199 


ThefoUowing  books  by  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D.,  referred 
to  in  this  volume,  are  published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons: 

Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence. 

Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Scie?ice  With  Facsimile  Letters  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

My  Spiritual  Aeroplane. 

Poems. 

II 


3Jntrabuctorp  Hetter 

401  West  118  Street, 
New  York  City. 

November  i,  1919. 

Dearly  beloved  teacher:^ — 

On  page  194  of  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Sci- 
entist, and  Miscellany,  in  a  letter  addressed  to 
First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York, 
N.  Y.,  our  beloved  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
writes : 

The  tender  memorial  engraven  on  your  grand 
edifice  stands  for  human  self  lost  in  divine  light, 
melted  into  the  radiance  of  His  likeness.  It  stands 
for  meekness  and  might,  for  Truth  as  attested 

*  Mrs.  Stetson  requests  her  students  not  to  use  a  capital  T 
in  addressing  her  as  teacher;  she  desires  them  to  use  the 
capital  T  only  when  referring  to  Christ  or  to  our  great  Leader 
and  Teacher,  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

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a  ^tribute  of  Hobe 

by  the  Founder  of  your  denomination  and  em- 
blazoned on  the  fair  escutcheon  of  your  church. 

May  I  give  you  the  result  of  a  little  study  of 
these  words,  ''emblazoned  on  the  fair  escutcheon 
of  your  church"?  The  Standard  Dictionary 
gives,  as  the  definition  of  "emblazoned, — to 
depict,  dehneate,  or  display  heraldically,  as  an 
armorial  bearing  on  a  shield."  Therefore  I  turn 
to  heraldic  law  for  information. 

In  the  Genealogical  Magazine,  September, 
1903, — two  or  three  months  before  Mrs.  Eddy 
wrote  the  above  mentioned  letter  to  you  and 
your  church, — A.  C.  Fox-Davies  wrote  the  fol- 
lowing in  an  article  entitled,  ''Heraldic  Marks 
of  Illegitimacy:** 

According  to  present  law,  the  position  of  an 
illegitimate  person  heraldically  is  based  upon  the 
common  law  of  the  country,  which  practically 
declares  that  an  illegitimate  child  has  no  name, 
no  parentage,  and  no  relations.  The  illegitimacy 
of  birth  is  an  insuperable  bar  to  inheritance,  and 
a  person  of  illegitimate  birth  inherits  no  arms  at 

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a  tribute  of  Hobe 

all,  the  popular  idea  that  he  inherits  a  right  to 
the  arms,  subject  to  a  mark  of  distinction,  being 
quite  incorrect.    He  has  none  at  all. 

The  following  letter  from  Mrs.  Eddy  to  you, 
which  is  found  in  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Sci- 
ence With  Facsimile  Letters  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
pages  394-396,  in  which  she  estabHshed  your 
relation  to  her  as  a  legitimate  child,  or  student, 
seems  proper  for  me  to  insert  here. 

Let  me  continue  quoting  from  A.  C.  Fox- 
Davies  in  his  article,  "Heraldic  Marks  of 
Illegitimacy:" 

If  any  one  of  illegitimate  birth  desires  to  ob- 
tain a  right  to  arms,  he  has  two  courses  open  to 
him.  He  can  either  (not  disclosing  the  fact  of 
his  illegitimacy,  and  not  attempting  to  prove  that 
he  is  a  descendant  of  any  kind  from  any  one  else) 
apply  for  and  obtain  a  new  grant  of  arms  on 
his  own  basis,  and  worry  through  the  [Herald's] 
College  a  grant  of  a  coat  as  closely  following  in 
design  that  of  the  old  family  as  he  can  get,  which 
means  that  he  would  be  treated  and  penalized 
with  such  alterations  (not  "marks  of  distinction") 

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ai  tribute  of  Hobe 

as  would  be  imposed  upon  a  stranger  in  blood 
endeavouring  to  obtain  arms  founded  upon  a  coat 
to  which  he  had  no  right.    .    .    . 

The  alternative  course  is  simple.  He  must 
avow  himself  a  bastard,  and  must  prove  his 
paternity  or  maternity,  as  the  case  may  be. 

First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York 
City,  is  the  only  church  in  the  w^orld,  so  far  as  I 
have  been  able  to  learn,  to  which  our  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  in  her  writings,  ascribes  an 
"escutcheon."  Then  the  question  arises,  whence 
came  this  "escutcheon"  ?  According  to  the  law 
of  heraldry,  there  are  two  ways  of  obtaining  a 
coat  of  arms, — by  direct  descent,  and  by  peti- 
tion. The  direct  descent  must  be  legitimate. 
You,  dear  Mrs.  Stetson,  as  the  head  of  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City, 
never  made  a  ''petition"  for  an  "escutcheon," 
but  you  received  one  from  your  Leader  and 
Teacher,  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

You  and  your  church,  which  are  one,  stand 
for  spiritual  understanding,  or  divine  conscious- 

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a  tribute  of  Hobe 

ness,  and  therefore  are  legitimate.  The  granite 
Church  Edifice  is  but  type  and  symbol  of  '*The 
structure  of  Truth  and  Love,"'  which  spiritual 
sense  will  finally  reveal.  Then  the  escutcheon 
must  have  come,  by  direct  spiritual  descent,  to 
you  and  your  church,  our  church,  which  is  com- 
posed of  your  students,  who  have  been  born  of 
Spirit,  and  therefore  have  continued  with  you  in 
the  race  for  immortality.  It  has  come  to  you 
as  the  legitimate  offspring  of  our  Leader  and  her 
Church,  The  Mother  Church,  ''The  structure  of 
Truth  and  Love." 

With  regard  to  the  qualification  ''fair,"  as 
applied  to  the  "escutcheon,"  let  me  quote  from 
Webster's  Dictionary: 

Free  from  spots,  specks,  dirt  or  imperfections ; 
unblemished;  clean;  pure;  spotless;  unstained. 

And  from  the  Standard  Dictionary: 

Free  from  clouds,   not  obscure;    .     .     .  free 
from  spot  or  blemish. 

^  Science  and  Healthy  page  583. 
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^  tCribute  of  ILobe 

The  spiritually  minded,  who  have  built  with 
you,  are  putting  the  capstone  of  a  ''wholly 
spiritual"'  consciousness  upon  the  Church  Tri- 
umphant. "^  This  consciousness  is  the  legitimate 
offspring  of  Spirit.  Under  the  heading,  "Abate- 
ment or  Rebatement,"  in  Rothery's  A  B  C  of 
Heraldry,  page  322,  we  find  this  definition: 

Marks  of  dishonour  invented  by  certain  writers 
and  intended  to  be  used  in  debruising  coats  by 
arms.  As  a  matter  of  fact  the  only  abatements 
ever  adopted  were  those  relating  to  illegitimacy 
of  birth.  The  abatements  were  (i)  Delf  tenn^, 
assigned  to  one  revoking  or  receding  from  his 
own  challenge.  (2)  .  .  .  for  dishonourable  con- 
duct to  a  woman.  .  .  .  (3)  .  .  .  assigned  to 
a  vainglorious  boaster.  (4)  .  .  .  cowardice. 
(5)  .  .  .  lying  to  prince  or  commander.  (6) 
.  .  .  slaying  a  prisoner  after  demanding  quar- 
ter. (7)  .  .  .  for  behaving  in  a  cowardly  way 
towards  an  enemy.  (8)  .  .  .  adultery  .  .  . 
drunkenness.     (9)   .    .    .  treason. 

While  these  abatements  were  not  officially 

*  Miscellany,  page  357. 

'  Manual  of  The  Mother  Church,  page  19. 

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a  Zvibntt  of  Hobe 

adopted,  they  were  of  sufficient  importance  in 
the  eyes  of  some  to  gain  consideration.  Onx 
Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  would  never  have  called  an 
"escutcheon"  "fair"  if  the  bearer  had  com- 
mitted such  offenses,  as  any  of  these,  against 
the  moral  law.  Let  us  examine  them.  You 
have  never  "revoked  nor  receded  from  your 
challenge"  to  error,  viz.: 

Dust  [nothingness]  thou  art,  and  unto  dust 
[nothingness]    shalt  thou  return    (Genesis    iii., 

19). 

This  is  the  law  of  Truth  to  error,  "Thou  shalt 
surely  die."  This  law  is  a  divine  energy  .  .  . 
it  covers  all  sin  and  its  effects  {Miscellaneous  Writ- 
ings, p.  208). 

You  never  have  been  guilty  of  "dishonour- 
able conduct  to  a  woman," — the  great  Leader, 
IMary  Baker  Eddy,  the  demonstrator  of  divine 
womanhood.  You  have  defended  her  and  her 
teaching  against  her  material  followers,  who 
could  not  discern  her  spiritual  individuality,  but 
regarded  her  as  both  human  and  divine,  which  is 

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a  tirifaute  of  ILobt 

not  Christian  Science,  nor  can  any  one  demon- 
strate Christian  Science  from  this  premise. 

Neither  'Vainglorious"  boasting  nor  "cow- 
ardice" have  dishonoured  your  shield,  because 
you  have  proved  your  spiritual  power.  You 
have  not  "lied  to  or  about"  your  Leader, 
"Prince  and  Commander" — Christ — but  you 
have  proclaimed  him,  her,  the  compound  idea, 
as  the  representative  of  Life,  Love,  and  Truth. 

Instead  of  "slaying  a  prisoner  after  demand- 
ing quarter,"  you  have  tried  to  save  and  free 
him  from  his  material  bonds.  Towards  the 
"enemy  of  good"^  you  have  used  "the  sword  of 
the  Spirit,  ...  the  Word  of  God."^  You 
have  given  us  unadulterated  truth,  and  have 
removed  yourself  far  from  "drunkenness." 
You  are  waking  us  all  from  the  drunken  sleep 
in  the  material  senses.  Last,  but  not  least,  you 
have  been  loyal  to  the  ' '  Lord  of  lords  and  King 
of  kings, "3  and  no  spot  of  "treason"  stains  the 

I  Miscellany,  page  358.  '  Ephesians  vi.,  17. 

3 Revelation  xvii.,  14. 

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a  Wxihntt  of  TLobt 

"fair  escutcheon"  with  which  Mrs.  Eddy  sig- 
naHzed  you  and  your  church. 

Your  Leader  has  proclaimed  you  her  legiti- 
mate offspring  and  your  students,  who  have 
stood  the  tests  of  the  battle  against  the  material 
world,  the  flesh  and  evil,  are  your  spiritual  off- 
spring and  will  become  Christ's  at  his  reappear- 
ing, when,  through  spiritual  sense,  we  vis- 
ualize Christ,  who  never  died  nor  left  God's 
earth,  the  only  universe,  wholly  spiritual  and 
eternal. 

We  owe  you  the  deepest  love,  loyalty,  and 
gratitude,  dearest  teacher,  for  showing  us  how 
to  demonstrate  the  spiritual  consciousness, 
which  is  objectified  in  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  New  York  City,  now  seen  in  symbol 
of  Church  Edifice.  Thus  spiritual  sense  makes 
us  the  legitimate  offspring  of  our  Leader,  Christ. 
May  we  continue  in  the  race  for  immortality, 
until  we  arrive  at  the  stature  of  the  spiritual  man 
in  Christ,  and  finally  find  ourselves,  with  you, 
under  the  ''fair  escutcheon"  of  your  church, 

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safe  in  the  haven  of  the  Church  Triumphant, 
The  Mother  Church,  which  is  "The  structure 
of  Truth  and  Love,"  a  "wholly  spiritual" 
consciousness. 

Let  me  quote  the  words  of  our  Leader  in 
confirmation  of  this: 

The  Revelator  was  on  our  plane  of  existence, 

while  yet  beholding  what  the  eye  cannot  see, 

— that    which    is    invisible    to    the   uninspired 

thought. 

...   St.  John's  corporeal  sense  of  the  heavens 

and  earth  had  vanished,  and  in  place  of  this  false 
sense  was  the  spiritual  sense,  the  subjective  state 
by  which  he  could  see  the  new  heaven  and  new 
earth,  which  involve  the  spiritual  idea  and  con- 
sciousness of  reality.  .  .  .  When  you  read  this, 
remember  Jesus'  words,  "The  kingdom  of  God 
is  within  you."  This  spiritual  consciousness  is 
therefore  a  present  possibility  (Science  and 
Health,  pp.  573,  574)- 

Ever  lovingly  and  gratefully, 
Your  student's  student, 

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New  York  City. 

May  20,  1918. 
Beloved  teacher: — 

It  is  recorded  in  the  third  chapter  of  Exodus 
that  ''Moses  kept  the  flock  .  .  .  and  he  led 
the  flock  to  the  backside  of  the  desert,  and  came 
to  the  mountain  of  God,  even  to  Horeb." 

You  have  led  the  flock  to  the  ''mountain  of 
God."  From  this  elevation  we  can  look  back 
over  the  road  to  be  travelled  by  the  material 
organization  which  is  yet  in  bondage  of  servi- 
tude to  the  Pharaohs  of  our  day. 

Our  great  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  spoke 
to  you  from  the  burning  bush.  She  bade  you 
take  off  your  shoes,  leave  any  material  sense  you 
might  have,  and  prove  that  "the  enemy  of  good 
cannot  separate  you  from  your  Leader  and  best 
earthly  friend. ' '  ^     You  are  come  with  your  flock 

^  Miscellany,  page  358. 

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upon  holy  ground,  the  consciousness  where 
"Spirit  is  infinite;  therefore  Spirit  is  all.^*^ 

The  reaHzation  of  your  oneness  with  God 
constitutes  your  commission.  **I  AM  THAT 
I  AM,"  the  eternal  Ego,  crowns  its  idea  with 
power,  and  you  are  conscious  of  your  spiritual 
individuality  as  one  with  God.  This  ''exempli- 
fication of  man's  unity  with  God"^  is  your  part 
in  the  atonement,  ''at-one-ment,''^  and  we,  the 
flock  which  you  have  led  hitherto,  rejoice  in  it. 
From  this  Horeb  height  we  can  see  the  journey 
we  have  taken ;  we  can  perceive  and  understand 
the  relations  things  bear  to  each  other  as  we 
could  not  do  when  we  were  winding  up  the 
narrow,  rugged  sheep  path. 

My  thought  goes  back  to  the  time  when  the 
Leader  called  you  to  Pleasant  View  to  do  some 
special  work.  I  recall  the  conversation  you 
had  with  her,  which  you  recounted  when  you 
returned  home. 

»  Miscellany,  page  357.         ^  Science  and  Health,  page  18. 
3  Science  and  Health,  page  19. 

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a  ®rttute  of  ILobe 

*' Augusta,"  she  said,  ''do  not  look  for  me  in 
this,"  putting  her  hands  on  her  knees,  "I  have 
risen!"  ''Then  your  resurrection  is  also  my 
resurrection,  is  it  not?"  you  replied.  "Yes," 
she  said,  "it  is." 

This  conversation  occurred  shortly  before 
Mrs.  Eddy  placed  all  her  property  in  the  hands 
of  three  Trustees.  To  quote  her  own  words, 
"I  have  so  done  that  I  may  have  more  peace, 
and  time  for  spiritual  thought  and  the  higher 
criticism. ' ' '  On  page  1 92  of  Science  and  Health, 
she  says,  "We  are  not  Christian  Scientists  until 
we  leave  all  for  Christ." 

Then  followed  in  quick  succession  abandon- 
ment of  Pleasant  View,  the  disbanding  of  the 
Executive  Members,  the  abolishing  of  the  Com- 
munion in  her  Church,  the  closing  of  the 
Mother's  Room. 

Of  these  events  Mrs.  Eddy  says: 

When  I  asked  you  to  dispense  with  the  Execu- 
tive Members'  meeting,  the  purpose  of  my  re- 
^  Miscellany,  page  136. 

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a  Ztibntt  of  ILobt 

quest  was  sacred.  It  was  to  turn  your  sense 
of  worship  from  the  material  to  the  spiritual, 
the  personal  to  the  impersonal,  the  denomina- 
tional to  the  doctrinal,  yea,  from  the  human  to 
the  divine  {Miscellany,  p.  139). 

When  abolishing  the  communion  in  her  Church 
Mrs.  Eddy  said  in  a  letter  addressed  to  Christ- 
ian Scientists: 

Relinquishing  a  material  form  of  communion  ad- 
vances it  spiritually.  The  material  form  is  a 
"Suffer  it  to  be  so  now,"  and  is  abandoned  so 
soon  as  God's  Way-shower,  Christ,  points  the 
advanced  step  {Miscellany ,  p.  140). 

On  closing  the  Mother's  Room,  these  trench- 
ant words  appeared  in  the  Christian  Science  Senti- 
nel (vol.  xi.,  p.  230)  over  Mrs.  Eddy's  signature, 
* '  There  is  nothing  in  this  room  now  of  any  special 
interest.  '  Let  the  dead  bury  their  dead, '  and  the 
spiritual  have  all  place  and  power." 

A  few  months  later,  Mrs.  Eddy  sent  this 
message  to  us : 

When  my  dear  brethren  in  New  York  desire  to 
build  higher,   .    .    .   they  must  begin  on  a  wholly 
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spiritual  foundation,   than   which   there  is   no 
other.   .    .    . 

Spirit    is    infinite;     therefore    Spirit    is    all 
{Miscellany,  p.  357). 

Beloved  teacher,  I  feel  that  these  two  mes- 
sages, one  in  regard  to  the  Mother's  Room  being 
closed  and  the  other  to  her  "dear  brethren  in 
New  York,"  should  be  read  in  close  connection. 
"There  is  nothing  in  this  room  now  of  any 
special  interest.  '  Let  the  dead  bury  their  dead,' 
and  the  spiritual  have  all  place  and  power." 
Beside  this,  place  the  message  to  her  "dear 
brethren  in  New  York,"  to  "begin  on  a  wholly 
spiritual  foundation.  .  .  .  Spirit  is  infinite; 
therefore  Spirit  is  alW^ 

The  understanding  of  erection  on  a  "wholly 
spiritual  foundation,"  the  understanding  which 
would  reveal  "The  structure  of  Truth  and 
Love,"'  the  Church  Triumphant,  this  under- 
standing our  Leader  perceived  you  possessed. 
This  caused  her  to  exclaim,  during  your  last 

^  Science  and  Healthy  page  583. 
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visit  to  her,  "This  is  the  happiest  day  of  my 
life  on  earth,"  and  with  that  she  ended  with 
"God  bless  you,  forever,  and  forever,  and  for- 
ever/*' Two  of  her  household  were  present  and 
heard  this  blessing. 

From  the  moment  of  our  response  to  "The 
Way  of  Wisdom," ''  followed  by  your  sending 
otir  so-called  "Composite  Letter  "^  in  which 
we  clearly  stated  our  perception  of  our  Lead- 
er, of  you,  our  teacher,  and  of  each  other  as 
idea,  from  that  moment,  I  firmly  believe  that 
Mrs.  Eddy  closed  the  material  activities  of  her 
Church,  The  Mother  Church  in  Boston,  Mass. 
This  is  indicated  in  the  following  By-Law, 
Article  XXIII,  Section  lo:  "In  Christian 
Science  each  branch  church  shall  be  distinctly 
democratic  in  its  government,  and  no  individ- 
ual, and  no  other  church  shall  interfere  with 
its   affairs."     The   directors   have    repeatedly 

^Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  page  i8. 
^  Miscellany,  page  356. 

3  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  pages  134-156. 

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a  ^tribute  of  Hobe 

transgressed  this  By-Law  by  interfering  in  the 
affairs  of  branch  churches. 

Again,  Article  I,  Section  3,  requires  "the  con- 
sent of  the  Pastor  Emeritus  given  in  her  own 
handwriting"  before  any  incumbents  can  be  re- 
elected or  any  new  officers  elected.  Obedience 
to  this  By-Law  would  have  arrested  the  func- 
tioning of  the  material  organization  insofar  as 
the  Church  in  Boston  is  concerned.  This  By- 
Law  was  utterly  disregarded.  The  Church  in 
Boston  was  kept  open,  offices  were  filled  as 
soon  as  vacancies  occurred  and  even  vacancies 
were  declared  and  filled  without  "the  consent 
of  the  Pastor  Emeritus  given  in  her  own  hand- 
writing." 

Indeed,  a  few  weeks  after  our  Leader  rose 
beyond  the  material  vision,  her  name  as  Pastor 
Emeritus  was  removed  from  her  Church  Manual 
by  the  directors.  This  was  a  denial  of  her 
spiritual  leadership  and  an  outrage  to  the  true 
members  of  her  Church  who  continued  to  ac- 
knowledge that  leadership  and  who  declare  that 
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their  Leader  lives,  as  she  always  has  lived,  as 
spiritual  individuality,  the  ideal  man  or  Christ, 
the  compound  manifestation  of  Father-Mother 
God. 

By  declaring  that  Mrs.  Eddy  is  dead,  the 
directors  have  repudiated  her  teachings  and 
thereby  excommunicated  themselves  from  The 
Mother  Church  of  Christian  Science,  which  is 
built  on  the  fundamental  statement,  man  is 
immortal,  for  God,  eternal  Mind,  is  his  Life. 
They  have  declared  vacant  the  senior  office  of 
the  Church,  that  of  the  Pastor  Emeritus. 
Article  I,  Section  i :  "The  Church  officers  shall 
consist  of  the  Pastor  Emeritus,  a  Board  of  Di- 
rectors, a  President,  a  Clerk,  a  Treasurer,  and 
two  Readers."  The  violation  of  this  initial 
By-Law  causes  every  subsequent  act  of  the 
Board  of  directors  to  be  outside  the  canons  of 
the  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist. 

The  true  Church  rose  with  the  Leader  above 
the  comprehension  of  the  materially  minded. 
Nothing  that  the  directors  have  put  forth  from 
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that  hour  has  anything  to  do  with  it.  There- 
fore the  evidence  is  that  all  letters  and  telegrams 
bearing  date  subsequent  to  February,  1909, 
having  to  do  with  church  government  or  dis- 
cipline and  accredited  to  Mrs.  Eddy,  came  from 
those  who  had  charge  of  the  material  organiza- 
tion. Our  Leader  had  called  out  from  the  ma- 
terial organization,  those  who  were  ready  to 
follow  her  in  spiritual  unfoldment  and  you,  our 
teacher,  with  some  of  your  students,  had  ar- 
rived at  the  imderstanding  that  ''Spirit  is 
infinite;  therefore  Spirit  is  all,''  and  were  not 
separated  from  our  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 
Any  writings,  however,  of  a  doctrinal  or 
metaphysical  nature,  I  as  surely  ascribe  to  her 
authorship,  for  she  says  in  her  notice  to  the 
Executive  Members  that  her  object  is  to  turn 
their  sense  of  worship  from  "the  denomina- 
tional to  the  doctrinal . ' '  Your  Leader  knew  that 
you  were  equal  to  the  test  of  the  crucible,  when 
she  said,  ''This  is  the  happiest  day  of  my  life 
on  earth."     She  knew  that  you  would  pass 

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a  JE'Vihntt  of  Hobe 

unharmed  through  the  flames  of  aroused  evil. 
The  fiery  trial  has  not  daunted  you.  In  the 
face  of  every  possible  material  evidence,  you 
have  stood  the  test  of  loyal  allegiance  to  her  as 
your  spiritual  Leader  and  Guide.  Not  having 
seen,  still  you  have  believed  and  so  have  been 
blessed  above  your  brethren.  The  dross  has 
yielded  to  the  fire  of  divine  Love  and  "even 
the  gold  of  human  character,"'  is  being  "melted 
into  the  radiance  of  His  likeness."^ 

"Surely  the  wrath  of  man  shall  praise  Thee: 
the  remainder  of  wrath  shalt  Thou  restrain." ^ 
The  "Awake  and  arise"  ^  came  like  the  thunder 
of  Sinai,  to  rouse  and  quicken  you  to  greater, 
more  selfless  endeavor  and  delivered  and  con- 
tinues to  deliver  you  from  dead  encumbering 
members. 

"All  things  work  together  for  good  to  them 
that  love  God,"^  good. 


» Science  and  Health,  page  565. 

2  Miscellany,  page  194.  ^  Psalm  Ixxvi.,  10. 

4  Miscellany,  page  359.  s  Romans  viii.,  28. 

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In  the  eternal  righteousness  of  this  un- 
changing law,  you,  beloved,  are  redeemed  and 
revealed  to  us,  as  a  demonstrator  of  genuine 
Christian  Science,  as  taught  by  our  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  we  are  following  and 
rejoicing  as  the  way  grows  brighter  "unto  the 
perfect  day."^ 

Loyally,  faithfully,  lovingly  your  student, 

<^:^£^  ^mJu*.  9<^L^ — 

« Proverbs  iv.,  i8. 


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g>tatement  a^  to  €hvi^tian  Science,  3tfi{ 
Smmebiate  ^tmomivatitm 

The  foundation  of  Christian  Science  is  fairly 
and  squarely  stated  by  its  Discoverer  and 
Founder,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  in  The  Christian 
Science  Journal  of  February,  1909,  pages  696 
and  697,  in  the  following  words: 

Spirit  is  infinite ;  therefore  Spirit  is  all.  * '  There 
is  no  matter"  is  not  only  the  axiom  of  true 
Christian  Science,  but  it  is  the  only  basis  upon 
which  this  Science  can  be  demonstrated. 

In  the  textbook  of  Christian  Science,  Science 
and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,  by 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  465,  we  read: 

Principle  and  its  idea  is  one,  and  this  one  is  God, 
omnipotent,  omniscient,  and  omnipresent  Being, 
and  His  reflection  is  man  and  the  universe. 

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On  page  475  of  the  same  work,  Science  and 
Health,  we  read : 

Man  is  spiritual  and  perfect;  and  because  he  is 
spiritual  and  perfect,  he  must  be  so  understood 
in  Christian  Science. 

Because  the  apparent  evidence  presented  to 
and  cognized  by  the  five  so-called  physical  senses 
denies  each  and  all  of  the  propositions  quoted, 
this  seeming  evidence  must  have  its  basis  on 
that  which  is  the  opposite  of  the  Principle  of 
these  propositions.  On  pages  591  and  592  of 
Science  and  Health  appears  the  following  defini- 
tion of  mortal  mind : 

Mortal  Mind.  Nothing  claiming  to  be  some- 
thing, for  Mind  is  immortal;  mythology;  error 
creating  other  errors;  a  suppositional  material 
sense,  alias  the  belief  that  sensation  is  in  matter, 
which  is  sensationless ;  a  belief  that  life,  sub- 
stance, and  intelligence  are  in  and  of  matter;  the 
opposite  of  Spirit,  and  therefore  the  opposite  of 
God,  or  good;  the  belief  that  life  has  a  beginning 
and  therefore  an  end;  the  belief  that  man  is  the 
offspring  of  mortals ;  the  belief  that  there  can  be 

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more  than  one  creator;  idolatry;  the  subjective 
states  of  error ;  material  senses ;  that  which  neither 
exists  in  Science  nor  can  be  recognized  by  the 
spiritual  sense;  sin;  sickness;  death. 

And  also  on  page  591  appears  the  following 
definition  of  matter : 

.  .  .  illusion;  .  .  .  the  opposite  of  Spirit; 
.  .  .  that  which  mortal  mind  sees,  feels,  hears, 
tastes,  and  smells  only  in  belief. 

On  pages  189,  117,  and  126  of  Science  and 
Health,  we  read: 

From  mortal  mind  comes  the  reproduction  of 
the  species.  .  .  .  matter  is  the  subjective 
condition  of  mortal  mind. 

Evidence  drawn  from  the  five  physical  senses 
relates  solely  to  human  reason. 

Himian  thought  never  projected  the  least  portion 
of  true  being. 

Here  we  have  two  sets  of  three  quotations 
each  from  the  textbook  of  Christian  Science, 
Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,  by 

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Mary  Baker  Eddy,  or  from  other  writings  by 
the  same  author.  The  statements  in  the  last 
three  quotations,  beginning  with  Mrs.  Eddy's 
definition  of  mortal  mind,  describe  that  which 
is  the  direct  antipode  of  the  three  propositions 
first  quoted;  this  thought  is  clearly  and  briefly 
expressed  in  Science  and  Health,  page  191 : 

The  Science  of  being  reveals  man  and  im- 
mortality as  based  on  Spirit.  Physical  sense 
defines  mortal  man  as  based  on  matter,  and  from 
this  premise  infers  the  mortality  of  the  body. 

From  these  quotations  the  following  deduc- 
tions are  clearly  and  logically  drawn:  First,  that 
man  is  the  reflection  of  Spirit,  Principle,  Mind, 
God,  and  is  therefore  spiritual  and  perfect. 
Second,  that  the  so-called  physical  or  material, 
mortal  man,  sick,  sinning,  and  dying,  is  the 
expression  of  a  false  sense,  named  in  Christian 
Science  ''mortal  mind,  alias  matter,"'  and  that 
both  mortal  mind  and  its  expression  is  illusion. 
The  fact  implied  in  this  statement  requires  both 

'  Science  and  Health,  page  391. 

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S  ®rifeiite  of  Hobe 

a  demonstrator  and  a  demonstration.  As 
mortal  man,  the  illusion,  is  the  counterfeit  of 
the  real  man,  and  as  this  counterfeit  is  mani- 
fested through  the  concept  of  a  so-called  hu- 
man father  and  mother,  so  the  real  Fatherhood 
and  Motherhood  of  God,  as  the  only  Parent 
of  man,  is  exemplified  in  Christ  Jesus  and 
Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

But  the  demonstration  is  not  complete  until 
Spirit  has  manifested,  through  Her  idea.  Her 
first-born  of  spiritual  conception.  This  also 
requires  both  a  demonstrator  and  a  demonstra- 
tion. This  demonstration  consists  in  the  com- 
plete denial  of  the  physical,  mortal,  so-called 
man,  who  is  not  a  reality,  but  an  illusion,  not  an 
entity,  but  an  objectified  false  sense,  which  must 
therefore  be  completely  and  entirely  dissolved  in 
its  every  manifestation;  and  the  bringing  into 
visible,  substantial,  spiritual  manifestation,  the 
real  man,  the  offspring  of  Spirit. 

This  demonstration,  as  the  natural  sequence 
of  the  manifestation  of  the  Fatherhood  and 
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Motherhood  of  God,  by  Christ  Jesus  and 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  dependent  upon  it,  is  the 
work  of  our  beloved  teacher,  Augusta  E.  Stetson, 
C.S.D.,  who  will  complete  in  divine  order,  "the 
chain  of  scientific  being." ^ 

March  19,  1918. 

'  Science  and  Health,  page  271. 


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New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

August  8,  1919. 
Beloved  teacher: — 

I  took  up  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science 
With  Facsimile  Letters  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy  to 
compare  a  few  dates,  and  I  opened  to  the  letter 
Mrs.  Eddy  wrote  you,  more  than  a  month  ajter 
her  alleged  letter  to  the  Board  of  directors  which 
was  read  to  us,  at  a  rehearsal  of  our  Oratorio 
Society'  last  Sunday  evening. 

This  letter  to  you,  removed  from  you  every 
obligation  to  the  material  organization  and  left 
you  free  to  teach  and  demonstrate  absolute 
Christian  Science,  viz.,  ''Spirit  is  infinite;  there- 
fore Spirit  is  all.  '  There  is  no  matter, ' "  ^  which, 
of  course,  you  could  not  have  done,  while  held 
in  the  bonds  of  material  organization.  I  quote 
the  entire  letter : 

'  The  Oratorio  Society  of  the  New  York  City  Christian 
Science  Institute.  "  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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Box  G,  Brookline,  Mass.^ 
August 
Thirtieth, 
1909. 
Mrs.  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D. 
7  West  Ninety-sixth  Street, 
New  York  City. 

My  Dear  Student: 

Your  kind  letter  was  duly  received.  You 
know  that  I  love  you  and  you  know  that  God 
has  made,  and  is  making  His  ways  and  works 
manifest  through  Divine  Science.  I  trust  He 
will  direct  your  path  in  the  footsteps  of  His  flock. 
The  Holy  Bible,  Science  &  Health  and  The 
Mother  Church  Manual  are  your  safe  guides, 
follow  them. 

I  have  not  the  time  to  think  of  the  Students 

in  all  their  varied  duties  of  life,  but  I  have  the 

faith  to  leave  them  in  the  hands  of  God,  who 

giveth  to  all  men  liberally  and  upbraideth  none. 

As  ever  yours  in  Christ, 

Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

The  Leader  freed  you  then  from  all  material, 
personal  domination,  so  that  you  could  make 

»  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters 
oj  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  facing  page  164. 

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your  "wholly  spiritual"^  demonstration  to  be- 
hold her  reappearing,  in  her  demonstration  of 
Christian  Science.  In  this  letter  you  have  her 
assurance,  that  she  considered  you  a  Christian 
Scientist,  by  recognizing  your  spiritual  status 
in  the  following  words,  ''you  know  that  God 
has  made,  and  is  making.  His  ways  and  works 
manifest  through  Divine  Science,"  also  by  con- 
tinuing to  recognize  your  right  to  the  degree  of 
C.S.D.  which  she  conferred  upon  you  many 
years  ago.  Only  through  spiritual  sense  could 
you  discern  the  operation  of  Principle,  Spirit,  in 
the  overturning  and  self-destruction  of  all 
material  organization. 

Mrs.  Eddy's  prophetic  words,  ''you  know 
that  God  has  made,  and  is  making  His  ways 
and  works  manifest  through  Divine  Science," 
have  been  verified  in  the  disturbed  conditions 
of  the  material  world,  during  the  last  five  years. 
Truly  has  God  said,  ' '  I  will  overturn,  overturn, 
overturn,  it:  .    .    .   until  he  come  whose  right 

^  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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a  ^xibnit  of  Hobe 

it  is;  and  I  will  give  it  him."'  Our  revered 
Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  has  purchased  the 
right  to  reappear,  as  compound  idea,  and  rule, 
with  Christ,  all  nations  with  the  mighty  power 
of  divine  Love. 

Her  assurance,  ''You  know  that  I  love  you"^ 
doubtless  gave  you  courage  to  meet  your  su- 
preme test,  when  excommunicated  from  the 
material  organization,  by  the  directors  of  the 
material  organization.  Mrs.  Eddy,  like  her 
Master,  Jesus  Christ,  loved  only  good,  and 
hated,  or  repelled,  evil. 

As  each  test  of  our  faith  and  understanding  is 
scientifically  met,  I  am  stronger  and  firmer  in 
my  conviction,  that  you  are  fulfilling  the  law  of 
Love,  which  the  Leader  imposed  upon  you,  when 
she  sent  you  to  New  York  City  to  establish 
**the  Christianity  of  Christian  Science."^ 

Your  students  recognize  this  spiritual  fact, 

» Ezekiel  xxi.,  27. 

'  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  facing  page  164. 

3  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  page  14. 

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a  tribute  of  Hobe 

viz.,  that  your  unswerving,  unterrified  allegiance 
to  Principle,  through  all  the  trickery,  "upbraid- 
ing"' and  "sudden  sallies"^  of  "the  enemy  of 
good  "  ^  has  fitted  you,  beyond  all  others,  to  guard 
the  sacred  trust  left  to  us  by  Mrs.  Eddy. 

She  confirms  the  conviction  of  your  students 
in  her  letter  to  you,  in  which  she  says,  "mother 
loves  you  and  appreciates  your  scientific  demon- 
stration over  my  other  students.  ""* 

It  is  glorious  to  know  that  our  years  of  prayer 
and  watching  with  our  revered  Leader,  Mrs. 
Eddy,  and  with  you,  our  teacher,  in  the  over- 
coming of  material  sense  testimony  and  the 
hourly  striving  to  prove  that,  "There  is  no  life, 
truth,  intelligence,  nor  substance  in  matter. 
.  .  .  man  is  not  material;  he  is  spiritual,"^ 
I  repeat,  it  is  glorious  that  during  this  travail 
from  sense  to  Soul,  Truth  and  Love  have  forced 

» Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  facing  page  164. 

2  Miscellany,  page  201.  3  Miscellany,  page  358. 

*  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  393. 

s  Science  and  Health,  page  468. 

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a  tribute  of  ILobe 

the  carnal  mind  to  defend  itselj  against  the  on- 
coming Christ.  We  will  not  cease  our  warfare 
against  the  claim  of  evil,  until  the  "foam  and 
fury  of  illegitimate  living  and  of  fearful  and 
doleful  dying  "^  cease  under  the  law  of  self- 
extinction. 

I  have  been  reading  again  the  history  of  EHjah 
and  Elisha.  The  story  applies  to  you  and  to 
our  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy.  Every  time  EHjah 
said,  "Tarry  here,  I  pray  thee,"''  Elisha  replied, 
*'As  thy  soul  liveth,  I  will  not  leave  thee." 
And  the  two  went  on  together. 

Elisha  was  confident  of  his  ability  to  follow 
his  master.  You,  dear  teacher,  have  proved 
your  spiritual  ability  to  continue  your  spiritual 
walk  with  your  Leader  and  Teacher,  and  as  she 
requested,  you  have  not  been  separated^  from 
your  Leader. 

All  this  time  the  sons  of  the  prophets  kept 
telling  Elisha  that  Elijah  would  leave  him.    But 

»  Science  and  Health,  page  203. 

=»  II  Kings  ii.,  1-16.  3  Miscellany,  page  358. 

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Elisha  bade  them  hold  their  peace;  and  he, 
alone,  was  able  to  grasp  the  fact,  that  Elijah  had 
not  died,  but  had  only  risen  above  Elisha 's  spir- 
itual ability  to  visualize  him.  He  continued  to 
follow  the  impersonal  idea,  or  Elijah.  But  until 
the  coming  of  Christ  Jesus,  we  have  no  evidence 
that  prophet  or  seer  ever  reappeared,  in  proof  that 
man,  in  God's  image  and  likeness,  is  deathless. 
The  sons  of  the  prophets  could  not  grasp  what 
had  taken  place.  Through  material  sense  they 
could  not  visualize  Elijah.  They  sent  strong 
men  to  search  the  mountain  tops,  lest  the  Spirit 
of  the  Lord  had  taken  up  Elijah  and  ''cast  him 
upon  some  mountain." 

And  they  said  unto  him,  Behold  now,  there  be 
with  thy  servants  fifty  strong  men;  let  them  go, 
we  pray  thee,  and  seek  thy  master :  lest  peradven- 
ture  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  hath  taken  him  up, 
and  cast  him  upon  some  mountain,  or  into  some 
valley  (II  Kings  ii.,  i6). 

To-day,  Christian   Scientists  who  have  not 
even  pecked  the  shell  of  material  organization, 
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do  not  know  what  the  Lord  has  done  with  their 
Leader,  nor  do  they  apprehend  her  reappearing, 
as  idea,  in  the  image  and  Hkeness  of  God. 

We  are  rejoicing  that  through  spiritual  sense 
we  know  her  as  the  representative  of  the  Mother- 
hood of  God  and  are  watching  for  her  to  reveal 
to  us  the  glory  of  God  in  the  second  coming  of 
the  compound  idea,  man. 

The  Apostle  said,  ''All  flesh  [humanity]  shall 
see  the  salvation  of  God,"'  "they  also  which 
pierced  him,"''  but,  only  those  who  have  built 
securely  on  a  "wholly  spiritual  foundation  "  will 
be  able  to  retain  the  spiritual  concept  of  man  in 
the  image  and  likeness  of  God.  In  that  day,  to 
those  who  have  the  Mind  of  Christ,  his  words 
will  be  fulfilled:  "Come,  ye  blessed  of  my 
Father,  inherit  the  kingdom  prepared  for  you 
from  the  foundation  of  the  world.  "^  To  the 
materially  minded  will  apply  the  words  of 
Christ's  beloved  disciple,  John: 

I  Luke  iii.,  6.  '  Revelation  i.,  7. 

3  Matthew  XXV.,  34. 

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la  Zxibntt  of  Hobe 

And  the  kings  of  the  earth,  and  the  great  men, 
and  the  rich  men,  and  the  chief  captains,  and  the 
mighty  men,  and  every  bondman,  and  every  free 
man,  hid  themselves  in  the  dens  and  in  the  rocks 
of  the  mountains ; 

And  said  to  the  mountains  and  rocks,  Fall  on 
us,  and  hide  us  from  the  face  of  him  that  sitteth 
on  the  throne,  and  from  the  wrath  of  the  Lamb : 

For  the  great  day  of  his  wrath  is  come;  and  who 
shall  be  able  to  stand?     (Revelation  vi.,  15-17.) 

We  must,  therefore,  have  our  lamps  of  spirit- 
ual sense  trimmed  and  burning,  for  the  Bride- 
groom is  near  and  imparts  to  us  a  quickened 
sense  of  joyous  expectancy. 

My  thoughts  run  back  over  the  many  years 
I  have  been  coming  to  you,  as  a  student,  often 
bringing  you  my  little  personal  problems,  which 
to  me,  at  the  time,  were  very  real.  I  dwell  on 
your  wonderful  love  and  continued  watch-care 
of  me  in  obedience  to  our  Leader's  injunction 
found  in  Science  and  Health,  page  451 : 

Every  Christian  Scientist,  every  conscientious 
teacher  of  the  Science  of  Mind-heaHng,  knows 

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that  human  will  is  not  Christian  Science,  and  he 
must  recognize  this  in  order  to  defend  himself 
from  the  influence  of  human  will.  He  feels 
morally  obligated  to  open  the  eyes  of  his  students 
that  they  may  perceive  the  nature  and  methods 
of  error  of  every  sort,  especially  any  subtle  degree 
of  evil,  deceived  and  deceiving. 

Also  in  the  Manual  of  The  Mother  Church, 
page  83 : 

A  teacher  shall  not  assume  personal  control  of, 
or  attempt  to  dominate  his  pupils,  but  he  shall 
hold  himself  morally  obligated  to  promote  their 
progress  in  the  understanding  of  divine  Principle, 
not  only  during  the  class  term  but  after  it,  and 
to  watch  well  that  they  prove  sound  in  sentiment 
and  practical  in  Christian  Science. 

For  all  these  years  of  your  patient  guidance 
my  heart  overflows  with  gratitude  to  you.  No 
mother  could  have  guided  her  infant's  footsteps 
more  tenderly  than  you  have  guided  mine 
toward  the  goal  of  eternal  Life  and  Love. 

A  large  body  of  grateful  people  are  on  the 
mental  wireless,  testifying  on  your  behalf.    Your 

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teaching  and  example  followed  have  brought 
them  out  of  great  tribulation  and  are  feeding 
their  hungry  affections  with  spiritual  food. 

If  all  the  material  evidence  in  the  world  were 
produced  in  an  endeavor  to  convince  me  that 
Mrs.  Eddy  hsid  failed  to  make  you  a  demonstra- 
tor of  genuine  Christian  Science,  that  this 
Science  might  be  preserved  until  her  reappearing 
as  idea,  I  should  still  know  that  your  names  were 
linked  by  her  **in  unity  and  love"'  in  your 
church.  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New 
York  City.  You  are  the  first-born  of  her 
teaching  and  no  material  evidence  can  refute  it. 

So  far  as  I  can  learn,  not  one  Christian  Scien- 
tist has  proclaimed  the  probability  or  possibility 
of  Mrs.  Eddy's  demonstration  of  divine  meta- 
physics, viz.,  ''There  is  No  Death. "^  Only 
you,  among  all  calling  themselves  Christian 
Scientists,  have  declared  this  fact  to  the  doubt- 
ing disciples  and  blind  humanity.     I  see  a  con- 

^  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  facing  page 
page  34.  *  Miscellany,  page  297. 

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firmation  of   this  in   the  following   quotation 
from  Mrs.  Eddy's  letter  to  you: 

You  keep  the  Golden  Rule  in  this  way;  and  my 
gratitude  is  golden  beyond  words. 

DarHng  rise  each  hour;  now  is  the  resurrection 
morn  and  I  want  Augusta  to  be  my  Mary  {Vital 
Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  p.  403). 

I  was  very  much  interested  in  the  words  of 
the  noted  aviator,  Mr.  P.  .  .,  who  was  present 
recently  at  a  rehearsal  of  our  Oratorio  Society. 
You,  with  your  Pilot,  our  beloved  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  are  making  a  record  height, 
and  we  in  our  aeroplanes,  are  following  after 
you,  in  spiritual  ''formation,"  as  high  as  our  in- 
dividual understanding,  at  present,  permits  us  to 
do.  Our  wings  must  be  tested  and  proved.  The 
flight  is  sure.  The  landing  on  the  shore  of 
eternal  Life  and  Love  awaits  demonstration. 
Your  last  book.  My  Spiritual  Aeroplane,  is  an 
inspiration  to  all  who  read  it. 

Dear  teacher,  I  wish  I  could  voice  all  the  love 
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and  gratitude  and  tenderness  I  feel  for  you,  and 
the  deep  sense  of  my  abiding  consciousness  of 
your  ability  to  demonstrate  the  highest  and  purest 
Science — the  fulfilment  of  the  law  of  Love. 

Youhave  taught  me  to  see  my  Leader,  as  God's 
Anointed,  in  a  measure  I  had  never  before  been 
able  to  grasp.  I  know  that  she  is  leading  us  and 
will  continue  to  lead  us  ''All  the  rugged  way."' 
You  once  spoke  to  us  of  the  "crown  of  dia- 
monds" willed  to  you  by  Mrs.  Eddy.  Do  you 
recall  the  letter  from  her,  on  page  i68,  of  Remi- 
niscences, Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  in  which 
she  says: 

Even  the  crown  of  thorns  that  mocked  the  bleed- 
ing brow  of  our  blessed  Lord,  was  over-crowned 
with  a  diadem  of  duties  done. 

Surely  you  have  won  that  crown. 

Each  attempted  attack  of  the  mental  as- 
sassin only  proves  how  strong  is  your  armor 
and  the  blade  falls  at  your  feet,  broken  in  its 
conflict  against  Truth. 

'  Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  398. 

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How  blessed  are  we,  your  student-body,  to- 
gether with  the  members  of  your  Oratorio 
Society,  all  of  whom  are  striving  *'to  build 
.  .  .  on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation."  We 
must  be  the  ''chosen  generation,"'  "the  rem- 
nant of  her  seed."''  This  I  know,  just  as  posi- 
tively as  I  know  that  you  are  the  highest  visible 
demonstrator  of  Truth  and  Love. 

You  request  us  to  try  to  be  always  in  our 
places  at  the  rehearsals.  This  we  realize  is  the 
reward  you  desire  for  all  your  faithful  care  over 
us.  We  pray  we  will  always  be  at  our  posts, 
doing  God's  work — reflecting  infinite  Love, 
which  is  the  spirit  of  Christian  Science.  We 
are  all  striving  earnestly  to  give  you  this  reward 
and  to  be  the  jewels  in  your  crown  of  rejoicing. 

With  dearest  love,  gratefully  and  humbly,  I 
sign  myself. 

Your  student, 

'  I  Peter  ii.,  9.  '  Revelation  xii.,  17, 

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448  Riverside  Drive, 
New  York  City. 

August  I,  1919. 
My  very  dear  teacher: — 

"The  words  of  a  man's  mouth  are  as  deep 
waters,  and  the  wellspring  of  wisdom  as  a 
flowing  brook."' 

As  the  morning  Hght,  which  grows  into  noon- 
day glory,  as  the  bud  opens  into  the  beauty  of  a 
rose,  so  is  the  unfolding  of  our  holy  Leader's 
(Mary  Baker  Eddy's)  message  entitled,  ''The 
Way  of  Wisdom,"  which  was  published  in  The 
Christian  Science  Journal,  February,  1909. 
Through  this  message,  Mrs.  Eddy  poured  forth 
her  desire — a  prayer  that  a  response  would  fol- 
low, which  would  reveal  the  fruit  of  her  tire- 
less labor,  viz..  Christian  Scientists  who  were 
ready  to  begin   ''to  build  ...  on   a   wholly 

» Proverbs  xviii. ,  4. 

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spiritual  foundation,"'  even  that  laid  by  Christ 
Jesus. 

Thus,  united  in  one  holy  purpose,  Christ 
Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy  have  presented  to 
humanity  the  compound  spiritual  idea  of  God. 
Through  spiritual  sense  we  behold  prophecy 
fulfilled  in  Christ  Jesus  and  we  find  ourselves 
able  to  interpret  St.  John  in  his  book  of  Revela- 
tion. The  second  appearing  of  Christ,  the 
compound  spiritual  idea  of  God,  was  embodied, 
in  this  age,  in  a  woman,  the  representative  of  the 
Motherhood  of  God.  Thus  the  Fatherhood  and 
Motherhood  of  God  in  Christ  Jesus  and  Christ 
Mary  have  obtained  recognition.  The  over- 
turning and  final  destruction  of  all  materiality 
and  evil,  that  opposes  God  and  His  infinite 
ideas  or  manifestation,  is  imminent. 

St.  John  saw  the  final  warfare  of  Truth  with 
error  and  the  rapid  spiritual  evolution,  which 
would  lead  to  the  full  realization  of  ''a  new 
heaven  and  a  new  earth.  "^    This  holy  Jeru- 

'  Miscellany,  page  357.  » Revelation  xxi.,  i. 

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salem,  "the  glory  of  God,"  or  the  real  universe 
and  man  in  God's  image  and  likeness,  as  St. 
John  describes  it  in  the  twenty-first  chapter  of 
Revelation,  may  seem  afar  off  to  some  and  not 
even  looked  for  by  others,  but  to  St.  John  it 
was  revealed  through  spiritual  sense,  nearly 
two  thousand  years  ago.  This  holy  state  of 
being,  ever  since,  has  been  awaiting  our  ac- 
ceptance. 

Our  great  Leader's  call  for  "my  dear  brethren 
in  New  York  ...  to  enlarge  their  phylac- 
teries and  demonstrate  Christian  Science  to  a 
higher  extent"'  was  divine  and  timely,  and  her 
heart  must  have  been  gladdened  with  an  im- 
mediate response  from  you  and  your  student- 
body  in  a  letter  entitled,  "Where  Shall  Wisdom 
Be  Found.  "^ 

Webster's  Dictionary  thus  defines  the  word, 
"Phylacteries.  ...  a  watcher,  guard  .  .  . 
to   watch,    guard,     i.  Any   charm   or   amulet 

^  Miscellany,  page  357. 

''  The  Christian  Science  Journal,  volume  xxvi.,  page  697. 

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worn  as  a  preservative  from  danger  or  disease. 
2.  A  small,  square  box,  made  either  of  parch- 
ment or  of  black  calfskin,  containing  slips  of 
parchment  or  vellum  on  which  are  written  the 
scriptural  passages,  Exodus  xiii.,2-io,and  11-17, 
Deut.  vi.,  4-9,  13-22."  For  more  than  fifty  years 
our  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  built  on  a  ''wholly 
spiritual  foundation," — the  Rock — Christ  and 
as  *'a  watcher,  guard,"  she  saw  the  dangers 
which  are  found  in  the  material  organization  of 
her  Church.  Call  after  call  came  from  her  to 
her  Church  to  look  through  and  beyond  the 
''partition  wall" — the  image  of  human  concep- 
tion and  to  follow  her  in  the  unfolding  of  spirit- 
ual sense  and  so  become  a  conscious,  living 
member  in  the  Church  Triumphant — "The 
structure  of  Truth  and  Love  "^— The  Mother 
Church.  The  closing  of  the  original  or  material 
church  in  Boston,  the  organization  known  as 
"First  Members"  which,  later,  was  called  "Ex- 
ecutive Members"  and  later  the  disbanding  of 
^  Science  and  Health,  page  583. 

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the  ''Executive  Members,"'  and  still  later  the 
closing  of  the  "Mother's  Room,"  were  the  pre- 
liminary m.oves  towards  the  "excelsior  exten- 
sion"^ of  The  Mother  Church  and  was  followed 
later  by  Mrs.  Eddy's  request  to  her  "dear 
brethren  in  New  York"  to  begin  to  build  "on  a 
wholly  spiritual  foundation,  than  which  there  is 
no  other,  and  proportionably  estimate  their  suc- 
cess and  glory  of  achievement  only  as  they  build 
upon  the  rock  of  Christ,  the  spiritual  foundation. 
This  will  open  the  way,  widely  and  impartially, 
to  their  never-ending  success, — to  salvation  and 
eternal  Christian  Science.  "^  Regarding  the 
closing  of  the ' '  Mother's  Room, ' '  Mrs.  Eddy  says  : 

There  is  nothing  in  this  room  now  of  any 
special  interest.  "Let  the  dead  bury  their 
dead,"  and  the  spiritual  have  all  place  and  power 
{Miscellany,  p.  353). 

Last  of  all  we  read  in  the  By-Laws  of  the 
Manual  of  The  Mother  Church  her  recognition  of 

"^  Manual  of  The  Mother  Church,  page  18. 
'Miscellany,  page  6.  ^Miscellany,  page  357. 

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her  prerogative,  in  regard  to  offices  that  shall  not 
be  filled  without  her  oral  or  written  consent. 
These  are  the  signs  of  the  times  in  accord  with 
spiritual  growth  and  they  herald  the  second 
coming  of  Christ.  This  "handwriting  on  the 
wall"  was  read  by  those,  who,  in  response  to 
Mrs.  Eddy's  request  were  beginning  "to  build 
.  .  .  on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation."  It 
was  a  clarion  call  to  come  under  ' '  the  divine  law 
of  Love."^ 

In  Miscellaneous  Writings,  on  pages  144  and 
145,  our  Leader  says: 

The  Church,  more  than  any  other  institution,  at 
present  is  the  cement  of  society,  and  it  should  be 
the  bulwark  of  civil  and  religious  liberty.  But 
the  time  cometh  when  the  religious  element,  or 
Church  of  Christ,  shall  exist  alone  in  the  affec- 
tions, and  need  no  organization  to  express  it. 

This  our  Leader  said  in  1894,  twenty-five 
years  ago.  Spirit,  the  law  of  progress,  compels 
respect  and  obedience  through  spirituaHzation 

»  Science  and  Health,  page  30. 
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a  tribute  of  ILobe 

of  thought  and  act.  Again,  on  page  359  of 
Miscellaneous  Writings,  Mrs.  Eddy  states  the 
spiritual  fact,  viz. : 

Material  organization  is  requisite  in  the  begin- 
ning; but  when  it  has  done  its  work,  the  purely 
Christly  method  of  teaching  and  preaching  must 
be  adopted. 

When  the  brethren  in  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  New  York  City,  responded  to  her  call 
to  begin  "to  build  .  .  .  on  a  wholly  spiritual 
foundation,"  the  great  Leader  of  Christian 
Science,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  witnessed  their 
deHverance  from  the  autocratic,  ecclesiastical 
domination  of  a  material  organization  and 
rejoiced  in  their  spiritual  cooperation  to  demon- 
strate spiritual  man  in  God's  image  and  Hkeness, 
and  teach  humanity  to  accept  Christ's  Chris- 
tianity, viz.,  "Spirit  is  infinite;  therefore  Spirit 
is  all.  'There  is  no  matter,"*^  "man  is  not 
material;  he  is  spiritual."^ 

'  Miscellany,  page  357. 

» Science  and  Health,  page  468. 

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ai  tltibute  of  Hobe 

Our  Leader  is  rejoicing  in  the  progress  of 
Truth  in  universal  consciousness  and  to-day  we 
see  Christ,  walking  on  the  sea  of  error  and 
commanding  the  winds  and  waves,  as  they 
lash  out  their  fury  on  the  shores  of  time. 
Everywhere  we  recognize  the  manifestation  of 
God's  presence,  through  His  ideas  or  spiritual 
man. 

In  Science  and  Health,  page  96,  our  dear 
Leader  foresaw  this  day,  when  she  stated,  * '  On 
one  side  there  will  be  discord  and  dismay;  on 
the  other  side  there  will  be  Science  and  peace." 
As  followers  of  Christ,  on  which  side  are  we 
thinking  and  living?  On  whatever  side  we 
think,  we  live,  and  the  phenomena  of  our 
thoughts  appear.  The  world  is  our  thought 
objectified.  Mrs.  Eddy  says,  ''all  causation 
was  Mind,  and  every  effect  a  mental  phenome- 
non."' As  there  is  but  one  Mind,  God,  the 
only  phenomena  must  be  spiritual,  eternal. 
The  phenomena  of  so-called  mortal  mind  there- 

» Retrospection  and  Introspection,  page  24. 
62 


13  Wxibntt  of  Hobe 

fore,  become  to  the  Christian  Scientists,  shadows 
of  a  time-world — nothingness. 

Through  spiritual  sense  we  behold  the  cloud 
of  universal  chemicalization,  known  as  the 
world-war,  with  the  turbulent  conditions 
throughout  the  time- world,  which  are  the  result 
of  the  warring  elements  in  the  so-called  carnal 
mind.  These  phenomena  reveal  the  ever- 
present  Christ,  destroying  evil  in  human  con- 
sciousness. Autocratic  human  will  in  its 
grossest  forms,  is  being  met  on  the  mental 
battle-field,  and  victory  will  be  on  the  side 
of  Truth,  manifesting  itself  in  the  highest 
form  of  Government,  which  is  foretold  in 
Isaiah : 

The  government  shall  be  upon  his  shoulder: 
and  his  name  shall  be  called  Wonderful,  Coun- 
sellor, The  mighty  God,  The  everlasting  Father, 
The  Prince  of  Peace. 

The  conflict  in  the  carnal  mind  is  expressed, 
at  present,  in  deadly  implements  of  warfare,  but 
the  power  of  Truth,  operating  through  man  in 

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a  JDrifaute  of  ILobe 

God's  image  and  likeness,  heralds  the  invisible 
host,  which  is  coming  to  proclaim  Christ,  "King 
of  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords."'  Lasting  peace 
and  divine  democracy  cannot  come  to  individ- 
uals and  nations,  until  the  autocratic  human 
will  and  energy,  the  beUef  of  life,  truth,  in- 
telligence, and  substance  in  matter  is  de- 
stroyed. 

In  looking  up  the  Bible  references  that  were 
enclosed  in  the  "phylacteries,"  one  thought 
stands  out  vividly  in  Exodus,  thirteenth  chap- 
ter, second  verse,  "Sanctify  unto  Me  [God]  all 
the  first-born."  The  Jewish  worshippers,  mate- 
rialistic in  their  obedience  to  the  law  of  God, 
sanctified  the  first-born  of  personal  sense  by 
sacrificing  a  lamb,  a  bullock,  or  a  turtle-dove, 
anything  but  themselves,  as  a  burnt  offering  to 
God.  Abraham  sacrificed  himself.  Spiritual 
sense  enabled  him  to  sacrifice  himself  and  in 
obedience  to  God's  command,  he  laid  on  the 
altar  his  only  son  Isaac.     Christ  declared,  "he 

»ITimothy  vi.,  15. 

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a  afrihute  of  Hobe 

that  loseth  his  life  [material  sense]  for  my  sake 
shall  find  it"  ^— shall  find  eternal  Life. 

Thanks  to  Christ  Jesus  and  Christ  Mary  for 
giving  us  the  ' '  Holy  Ghost.  Divine  Science ;  the 
development  of  eternal  Life,  Truth,  and  Love."' 
Through  their  spiritual  vision  and  teaching  we 
behold  the  ideal  man— the  ' ' first-born. ' '  Thanks 
to  you,  dear  teacher,  our  heroic  spiritual 
''builder"  toward  the  world  of  Mind  and  divine 
metaphysics,  for  your  steadfast  affirmation  of 
our  holy  Leader's  living  presence  and  for  your 
fidelity  to  ' '  the  remnant  of  her  seed, "  ^  her  sheep 
whom  she  bade  you  feed.  "* 

Patient,  long-suffering,  loving,  forgiving, 
faithful  teacher,  no  human  desire,  no  material 
thing  can  ever  reward  you  for  your  loyalty  to 
God  and  His  Christ  and  for  your  continued  fidel- 
ity to  our  beloved  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 
The  spirit  of  the  Master,  in  you,  is  assimi- 

^  Matthew  x.,  39. 

2  Science  and  Health,  page  588. 

3  Revelation  xii.,  17. 

^  Reminiscences ,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  page  215. 

s  65 


a  tCribute  of  Hobe 

lating  itself  to  Love  and  this  Christly  love  alone 
has  satisfied  your  immortal  cravings  and  has 
enabled  you  to  continue  in  spiritual  mental 
ascension  with  your  Leader  and  Teacher, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy.  Therefore  according  to  her 
injunction,  you  have  not  allowed  the  "enemy 
of  good"'  to  "separate"'  you  from  her. 

Christ  Jesus  prayed :  "  O  Father,  glorify  Thou 
me  with  Thine  own  self."''  We,  your  faithful 
students,  can  help  you  and  humanity,  by  follow- 
ing in  the  way  of  light  and  revelation,  which  will 
throw  into  your  path  beams  of  gratitude  and 
love,  and  will  cheer  you,  as  you  rise  to  the 
mountain  heights  to  behold  "the  risen  Lord." 

Please  pardon  my  long  letter.  ".  .  . 
thoughts,  illumined  By  faith  "^  are  flooding  my 
consciousness  and  I  enjoy,  with  the  joy  of  Spirit, 
a  chat  with  you  in  one  of  our  Father's  mansions, 
our  spiritual  consciousness.  The  first-born  of 
man  in  God's  image  and  likeness  is  "the  only 

^  Miscellany,  page  358.  ^  John  xvii.,  5. 

3  Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  396. 

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a  ^rifiute  of  iLobe 

begotten  Son"' — the  Christ.  The  first-born  of 
all,  whether  animal,  fowl,  fish,  flower,  mineral, 
or  vegetable,  have  always  existed  as  ideas  of  God 
and  finally  spiritual  sense  will  reveal  them,  for 
God  is  the  only  creator. 

Here  we  may  see  how  personal  sense,  auto- 
cratic domination  and  the  claim  to  a  material 
generation  have  attempted  to  counterfeit  God's 
creation — God's  ideas  which  have  always  ex- 
isted, therefore  were  the  first-born,  not  of  the 
flesh  but  the  Spirit.  This  is  the  interpretation 
of  Paul's  words:  ''The  first-born  of  every  crea- 
ture,"^ viz.,  through  which  Spirit,  Mind,  God, 
operates.  Mrs.  Eddy  says,  "Principle  and  its 
idea  is  one."^  Christ  Jesus  confirms  this  in  his 
declaration,  "Before  Abraham  was,  I  am."^ 
Thus  spiritual  sense  reveals  the  fact  that  "the 
earth  is  the  Lord's,  and  the  fulness  thereof. "^ 
Christ  is  bringing  to  an  end  the  phenomena  of 
"lust    and    hypocrisy"^ — a    material,    mortal 

^  John  iii.,  i8.  ^  Colossians  i.,  15. 

3  Science  and  Health,  p.  465.     4  John  viii.,  58. 

s  I  Corinthians  x.,  26.  <>  Science  and  Health,  page  567. 

67 


9  JTtftute  of  Hobe 

so-called  man  and  a  material  universe.  Glory 
be  to  God,  Christ  calls  to-day  louder  than  ever 
to  the  dragon  and  his  angels,  "Loose  him,  and 
let  him  go."' 

This  demand  of  Truth  is  "the  sword  of  the 
Spirit,  which  is  the  word  of  God"'  and  finally 
will  awaken  all  to  individuaHty  in  God — the 
spiritual  personaHty  of  man.  Every  day  we 
are  learning  wonderful  lessons  in  the  unfold- 
ing of  Truth,  from  the  labors  of  our  great 
Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  her  students  who  have 
been  spiritually  born  through  her  travail  from 
sense  to  Soul.  The  grandest,  noblest  and  only 
successful  work  is  to  "be  about  my  [our]  Father's 
business."^ 

I  have  been  reaHzing  lately  more  than  ever 
the  necessity  of  spiritualization  of  thought. 
Our  great  Master  said,  "I  and  my  Father  are 
one.  "4 

He  called  the  image  of  mortal  mind,  the  mat- 

» John  xi.,  44.  ="  Ephesians  vi.,  17. 

3  Luke  ii.,  49.  "  John  x.,  30. 

68 


a  5Dri6ute  of  Hobe 

ter  body,  "flesh  and  bones."'  He  carefully 
kept  a  wide  gulf  between  the  so-called  organized 
matter  body  and  himself,  his  ego,  his  reflection 
of  the  Ego — God.  He  never  held  a  belief -image 
as  himself.  He  never  named  an  organ,  never 
diagnosed  the  claim  of  organic  life.  He  under- 
stood and  felt  his  substance,  his  spiritual  iden- 
tity, which  he  knew  to  be  immortal  and 
ever-present,  hence  his  saying,  ''Destroy  this 
temple,"^  this  shadow  which  seems  to  be  but  is 
not  real,  and  I,  my  spiritual  individuality,  will 
manifest  myself  to  you.  The  disciples  recog- 
nized their  Master  but  material  sense  soon  hid 
him  from  their  view.  Spiritual  sense  would 
have  enabled  them  to  visualize  and  follow  their 
Master. 

The  true  Christian  Scientist  abides  in  Truth 
and  is  sustained  by  Life  and  Love  —  God. 
Spiritual  qualities,  which  compose  the  nature  of 
God,  blend  harmoniously  in  the  reflection  of  one 
Principle  and  in  individual  harmonious  being. 

^Luke  xxiv.,  39.  'John  ii.,  19. 

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a  Crftute  of  Hobe 

As  builders  on  a  ''wholly  spiritual  founda- 
tion," we  must  live  outside  and  above  material 
organization  and  find  happiness  in  unselfed 
labor  for  God  and  humanity.  True  happiness 
never  comes  until  we  find  our  "own  in  another's 
good."'  To  all  I  would  say,  forget  yourself, 
destroy  a  belief  that  you  are  organized  matter 
and  find  your  real  self  in  Mind.  This  is  Christ's 
Christianity,  divine  democracy. 

The  reading  of  our  precious  Leader's  books, 
and  the  repetition  of  words,  the  letter  of  Chris- 
tian Science,  will  not  alone  give  us  the  living 
presence  of  our  Christ,  Leader.  We  must  gain 
both  the  letter  and  the  spirit  of  Christian  Science 
and  possess  the  quaHties  of  Spirit,  if  we  would 
walk  with  her  and  understand  her  words,  "En- 
tirely separate  from  the  beHef  and  dream  of 
material  Hving,  is  the  Life  divine."' 

Oh,  my  dear  teacher,  what  it  means  to  love 
divinely !     You  know  and  have  found  what  it 

*  Science  and  Health,  page  518. 
» Science  and  Health,  page  14. 
70 


la  Zvihntt  of  ILobt 

means  to  love  divinely,  as  Christ  Jesus  and 
Mary  Baker  Eddy  loved,  viz.,  to  love  your 
enemies  and  pray  for  them. 

I  pray  that  I  may  be  found  worthy  to  be 
called  a  follower  and  promulgator  of  the  teach- 
ings of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the  Discoverer  and 
Founder  of  Christian  Science. 

Ever  your  loving,  grateful  student, 


71 


The  light  of  the  body  is  the  eye 

thy  whole  bodyfpolitjc] 
lam  the  Lord  your  Goo  which  ha 


ifthereforethine  eye  be  single 
shall  be  full  of  light. 

seoarated  you  from  other  people" 

Ley/iicus  2  0-1* 


A  NEW  ORDCR  or  AGES  IS  BORN -"^  n'ew  oVAppTnG^  Is^fT  DOWN  fftOM  LOFTY  HEAVEN- 
THC  coming  man   in  whom  the  iron  age  LNOS'H'f-TMe  (jLlLDtN  AOf  ARiitS.i,N  TMf   WHOLE  EARTH 


MANASSEH      ^^^       BROTHtRb      W'^       EPHRAIM 

JONATHAN      AND     JOHN 

'1  believe  strictly  in  tiie  Monroe  doctrine,  in  oor  Constitulion.and  in  tlie  laws  of  muhsskr^ddy. 
Hail  brother!  fling  thy  banner     Brave  Britain,  blest  America! 

To  the  billows  and  the  breeze;     Unite  your  battle  plan, 
We  proffer  thee  warm  welcome  Yiclorlous  all  who  live  Itr 

With  our  hand,  though  not  our  knees.    The  love  for  &0D  and  \m^MrfBjcr[(jdY 


ONE     GOD  ONE    Lu^^V 

DIVINE  DEMOCRACY    UNIVERSAL  BROTHERHOOD 


The  above  shield,  or  escutcheon,  arranged  by  Mrs.  Augusta 
E.  vStetson,  C.  S.  D.,  has  been  upon  the  fagade  of  her  house 
since  the  summer  of  191 7. 

Definition  of  Shield:  "The  escutcheon  upon  which  emblems 
of  heraldry  [spiritual]  are  depicted"  (Standard  Dictionary). 

(Reproduced  by  permission) 


la  tribute  of  Hobe 

Excerpt  from  a  letter^  sent  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy 
to  be  read  at  the  Dedicatory  service  of  Mrs. 
Stetson's  church,  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scien- 
tist, New  York  City,  November  3, 1903,  also  Mrs. 
Eddy's  reply  to  a  telegram  from  the  church: 

The  tender  memorial  engraven  on  your  grand 
edifice  stands  for  human  self  lost  in  divine  light, 
melted  into  the  radiance  of  His  likeness.  It 
stands  for  meekness  and  might,  for  Truth  as 
attested  by  the  Founder  of  your  denomination  and 
emblazoned  on  the  fair  escutcheon  of  your  church. 

Beloved  Students: — Your  telegram,  in  which 
you  present  to  me  the  princely  gift  of  your  magni- 
ficent church  edifice  in  New  York  City,  is  an 
unexpected  token  of  your  gratitude  and  love.  I 
deeply  appreciate  it,  profoundly  thank  you  for 
it,  and  gratefully  accept  the  spirit  of  it;  but  I 
must  decline  to  receive  that  for  which  you  have 
sacrificed  so  much  and  labored  so  long.  May 
divine  Love  abundantly  bless  you,  reward  you 
according  to  your  works,  guide  and  guard  you 
and  your  church  through  the  depths ;  and  may  you 

"Who  stood  the  storm  when  seas  were  rough, 
Ne'er  in  a  sunny  hour  fall  off." 
*  Miscellany  f  page  194. 

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Hotel  Touraine, 
New  York  City. 

July  12,  1919. 
Beloved  teacher: — 

Forgive  me  if  I  intrude  upon  your  sacred 
moments  of  spiritual  work  for  the  relief  of  suffer- 
ing humanity.  I  am  strongly  moved  to  record 
for  you,  a  few  of  the  wonderful  phenomena, 
which  the  recent  visit  of  the  British  dirigible, 
R-34,  expressed  in  the  clearly  defined  spiritual 
parallel  with  your  illumination  in  the  uniting  of 
America  (Manasseh)  and  Great  Britain  (Eph- 
raim).'  Only  you,  dear  teacher,  the  Joseph 
among  your  brethren,  perceive,  as  near  fulfil- 
ment, this  uniting  of  Manasseh  and  Ephraim. 

Spiritual  definition  of  Joseph : 

...   a  higher  sense  of  Truth  rebuking  mortal 
belief,  or  error,  and  showing  the  immortality  and 

'Genesis  xlviii. 

75 


ai  V^tibntt  of  ILobe 

supremacy  of  Truth;  pure  affection  blessing  its 
enemies  (Science  and  Health,  p.  589). 

On  Wednesday,  July  2,  1919,  the  R-34  left 
Scotland  with  a  definite  destination  before  her, 
the  landing  at  the  great  aviation  field  at 
Mineola,  Long  Island.  The  Indian  name  for 
Mineola  is  "Lovely  Water.'* 

While  we  are  fast  dissolving  all  belief  in  ma- 
terial generation,  every  illusion  of  ''Ancestral 
Shadows,'"  it  is  significant  to  remember  how 
reverently  our  great  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
spoke  of  "the  Scotch  and  English  elements," 
or  spiritual  qualities,  which  the  Scotch  Cove- 
nanters, or  stock,  from  which  she  was  descend- 
ed, expressed.  We  recall  how  often  she  speaks 
of  and  quotes  from  the  writings  of  Sir  Walter 
Scott,  and  how  she  uses  his  verses  put  in  the 
mouth  of  Rebecca  the  Jewess,  in  Ivanhoe,  to 
illustrate  the  spiritual  guidance  of  the  child- 
ren  of   Israel,   in    their    triumphant    passage 

^Retrospection  and  Introspection,  page  i. 

76 


a  tribute  of  Hobe 

through  the  Red  Sea,  out  of  the  wilderness  and 
into  the  promised  land.  The  Commander  of 
the  R-34  is  named  Scott. 

On  July  2nd,  at  the  rehearsal  of  our  Oratorio 
Society,'  you  spoke  of  the  shepherd  and  the 
sheep,  and  with  your  inscrutable  and  far-seeing 
wisdom,  beloved  teacher,  you  read  to  us  Eze- 
kiel's  prophecy  concerning  the  false  shepherds 
of  Israel.^ 

Mrs.  Eddy's  definition  of  ''Sheep.  Inno- 
cence; inoffensiveness;  those  who  follow  their 
leader.  "3 

For  spiritual  continuity  and  chronological 
accuracy,  it  is  necessary,  just  here,  to  relate 
chat  immediately  after  our  singing  on  Wednes- 
day evening  of  '  *  Psalms  and  hymns  and  spiritual 
songs,  "4  to  God  and  His  Christ,  I  started  for 
Virginia,  where,  on  the  eve  of  Independence 
Day,  before  the  United  States  Marine  Corps, 

» The  Oratorio  Society  of  the  New  York  City  Christian 
Science  Institute.  ^  Ezekiel  xxxiv. 

3  Science  and  Health,  page  594 .  "  Colossians  iii.  ,16. 

77 


a  ai:riijute  of  Hobe 

The  National  Anthem,  "Our  America,"'  was 
sung  publicly  for  the  seventh  time  in  fourteen 
days,  the  last  verse  of  which  rang  out  with 
enthusiasm : 

America,  America,  the  God  of  love, 
Whose  name  is  every  name  above, 

Is  thy  defense. 
'Tis  thou  must  lead  the  longing  world 
From  phantom  fears  to  Love's  unfurled 

Omnipotence. 

That  evening  the  words  of  Christ  Jesus  and 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  together  with  your  declara- 
tion, "One  God,  One  Law,  Divine  Democracy, 
Universal  Brotherhood,"  were  voiced  by  the 
Marines  with  repetition  and  listened  to  rever- 
ently. Twelve  times  the  verses  of  * '  Our  Amer- 
ica" were  sung  by  the  Marines,  as  well  as  the 
five  verses  of  "Love's  Lullaby."^  It  was  in 
Virginia,  just  three  hundred  years  ago,  that  the 

^  Words  by  Alice  Morgan  Harrison,  music  by  Augusta  E. 
Stetson,  C.  S.  D.,  published  by  G.  Schirmer,  New  York. 

^  Words  and  music  by  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.  S.  D,,  pub- 
lished by  G.  Schirmer,  New  York. 

78 


a  QCribute  of  Hobe 

first  representative  assembly  in  America  was 
established. 

The  mighty  spiritual  power  of  our  Oratorio 
and  Anthem  rehearsal,  which  was  sung  on  July 
2nd,  our  three  days  of  prayer  to  the  God  of  Life 
and  Love  for  the  people,  which  included  June 
29th,  July  2nd,  and  July  4th— these  hours  of 
prayer  and  fasting  were  followed  by  great 
spiritual  illumination.  The  overthrow  of  the 
Peruvian  government  in  Lima  (the  ancient 
seat  of  the  oppressive  Spanish  kings)  in  the 
early  morning  of  July  4th,  indicates  humanity's 
resistance  to  autocracy. 

At  that  hour,  July  4th,  under  the  law  of 
divine  direction  symboHzed  in  the  dirigible 
R-34,  Ephraim  (Great  Britain)  was  coming  to 
Manasseh  (America)  the  first-born  of  Joseph. 
The  affluent,  protecting,  godly,  Joseph  charac- 
ter which  America  symbolizes,  was  revealed  in 
type,  in  the  beautiful,  pure  white  fur  robe  that 
was  brought  from  Lima  and  presented  to  you 
July  4,  1919. 

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S  ^tribute  at  Hobe 

To-day  I  turned  to  the  momentous  ''Com- 
posite Letter,"'  and  found  that  you  had  sent  it 
to  the  Leader  on  July  lo,  1908,  the  day  preced- 
ing the  Communion  service.  It  was  just  ten 
years  later,  shortly  after  midnight,  on  her  return 
voyage  to  England,  July  10,  1919,  that  the 
R-34  hovered  nearly  ten  minutes  over  your 
church  and  your  home. 

In  Christian  Science  the  midnight  hour  will 
always  be  the  bridal  hour,  until  "no  night  is 
there."  The  wise  will  have  their  lamps  aglow, 
and  light  will  illumine  the  darkness  {Miscel- 
laneous Writings,  p.  276). 

The  New  York  Times  records  that : 

An  interesting  phenomenon  was  observed  as 
the  dirigible  ascended.  The  three  search-lights 
threw  the  shadow  of  the  great  vessel  across  a 
bank  of  clouds,  and  it  showed  up  like  a  super- 
colossal  airship  against  the  banks  of  clouds.  The 
R-34  flew  the  white  ensign  of  the  British  Navy, 
.    .    .   and  as  a  last  graceful  tribute  to  the  United 

^  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters  oj 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  pages  134-156. 
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States,  the  Stars  and  Stripes  were  broken  out 
from  her  forward  gondola. 

Your  glorious  example,  beloved  teacher,  of 
the  might,  majesty,  and  spiritual  dominion  of 
man  when  governed  by  God ;  your  sending  forth 
of  the  "Word"  charged  with  the  dynamic  force 
of  the  reflection  of  Love,  which  is  a  chastening 
rod  to  the  claim  of  sin,  make  you  seem,  to  your 
flock,  not  only  a  tender  shepherdess,  for  ''Ten- 
derness accompanies  all  the  might  imparted  by 
Spirit,"^  but  a  colossal,  spiritual  battleship, 
which  has  risen  above  every  wave  of  mortal 
conception,  material  sense.  You  have  met  and 
destroyed,  for  yourself,  the  claim  to  power,  of 
"the  prince  ...  of  the  air"^ — the  belief  of 
material  generation.  You  are  a  master  builder 
on  the  spiritual  foundation,  the  Rock,  Christ. 
You  have  risen  above  the  storms  and  clouds  of 
belief,  through  spiritualization  of  thought  and  are 
rising  to  the  heights  of  "conception  unconfined 

^Science  and  Health,  page  514.  ^Ephesians  ii.,  2. 

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.  .  .  winged  to  reach  the  divine  glory."'  You 
are  proving  the  power  of  spiritual  life  and  love. 
You  sent  forth  the  Word,  at  the  last  Oratorio 
rehearsal,  that  "the  press  belongs  to  God,"  as 
do  all  things,  for  ''the  earth  is  the  Lord's,  and 
the  fulness  thereof."^  "He  [God]  spake,  and 
it  was  done." 3  The  unified  unfurling  of  the 
flags  of  America  and  Great  Britain,  symbolizing 
the    unity    of    Manasseh    and    Ephraim,    the 

.    .    .  bridal 
Betokened  from  above,  "* 

this  unified  unfurling  is  externalized  in  the  shield 
on  the  fagade  of  your  house.  We  have  our 
Leader's  words  for  authority  that  she  spake 
through  the  press.     She  wrote  you : 

You  will  hear  from  me  soon  through  the  news- 
papers on  the  Episcopal  Congress.  It  will  help 
you  dear  one  to  meet  the  armaments  of  concealed 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  323. 

3  Psalm  xxiv.,  i.  3  Psalm  xxxiii.,  9. 

4  "The  United  States  to  Great  Britain," 

Poems,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  10. 

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la  tCribute  of  Hobe 

warfare  (Extract  from  her  letter  to  you,  re- 
corded in  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With 
Facsimile  Letters  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  p.  393). 

Every  day  we  have  proof  that  she  is  speaking, 
not  only  through  her  Monitor,  but  through  her 
followers  who  are  building  on  a  "  wholly  spiritual 
foundation."^  Truth  and  Love  detect  and 
destroy  "the  armaments  of  concealed  warfare," 
through  every  channel.  Of  this  you  have  had 
incontrovertible  proof. 

You  also  spoke  one  night,  with  solemn  em- 
phasis and  warning,  of  America's  spiritual  con- 
ception and  leadership  among  the  nations,  and 
charged  the  Leader's  words  into  universal 
thought  three  times  with  stupendous  power, 
"I  believe  strictly  in  the  Monroe  doctrine,  in 
our  Constitution,  and  in  the  laws  of  God."^ 

The  British  dirigible,  that  which  is  being  direct- 
ed, in  being  directed  to  hover  over  Mrs.  Eddy's 
and  your  church  and  home   (her  name  is  in 

^  Miscellany,  page  357.  '  Miscellany,  page  282. 

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the  corner-stone  with  yours  "in  unity  and 
love"'),  was  obeying  a  royal,  spiritual  mandate, 
thus  typifying  the  removal  of  the  material 
crown  from  Ephraim's  brow,  and  fulfilling  the 
Leader's  prophecy  that : 

They  must  renounce  aggression,  oppression  and 
the  pride  of  power.  Christianity,  with  the  crown 
of  Love  upon  her  brow,  must  be  their  queen  of 
life  {Science  and  Health,  p.  451). 

In  the  dirigible's  name  the  "R"  signifies 
royalty  and  3  and  4,  making  seven,  represent 
completeness.  The  crowning,  in  the  Holy  City, 
of  Manasseh,  America,  the  first-born  of  Joseph, 
at  the  seat  of  spiritual  sovereignty  and  govern- 
ment, symbolizes  the  dethronement  of  Israel 
after  the  flesh,  material  conception,  and  the 
entering  into  the  temple  of  the  first-born,  or  the 
"wholly  spiritual"  consciousness,  or  building, 
which  is  the  "house  not  made  with  hands, 
eternal  in  the  heavens."^ 

^Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  facing 
page  34.  '  II  Corinthians  v.,  i. 

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The  R-34  was  the  new  star  of  hope,  guiding  to 
"where  the  young  child  was,"^  the  spiritual 
idea,  and  bringing  the  tender  message,  that 
the  Church  Triumphant,  symboHzed  by  The 
Mother  Church,  "The  structure  of  Truth  and 
Love,"^  "Love  wedded  to  its  own  spiritual 
idea, "3  with  its  true  "Directors,"  was  being 
revealed. 

Thus  olden  faith's  pale  star  now  blends 

In  seven-hued  white ! 
Life,  without  birth  and  without  end, 
Emitting  light ! 

(Christ  and  Christmas, 
by  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy.) 

Her  Directors,  or  in  other  words,  those  whom 
she,  as  Leader,  directs  to  carry  on  the  spiritual 
work  in  Christian  Science  are  her  Christian  fol- 
lowers, who  respond  to  her  divine  influence  as 
impersonal  idea.  .  .  .  They  rise  with  Christ 
into  the  understanding  of  man's  relation  to 
eternal  Life  and  Love  and  their  radiation  in  idea 

^  Matthew  ii.,  9.  '  Science  and  Health,  page  583. 

^Science  and  Health,  page  575. 

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— spiritual  man.  These  Mrs.  Eddy  directs. 
(  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile 
Letters  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  p.  368). 

"The  Lady,"  as  the  British  officers  affection- 
ately label  their  ship  (and  we  know  that  her 
every  movement  was  directed  by  the  impersonal 
idea,  the  Christ  consciousness)  shone  with  a 
blaze  of  reflected  light,  as  she  hovered  over  your 
church  and  home,  thus  typifying  the  Mother- 
love  of  the  Leader,  brooding  in  divine  light  over 
her  first-born  branch  church.  In  divine  con- 
tinuity, it  also  typified  the  priceless  love,  which 
alone  could  sustain  you,  beloved,  in  your  por- 
tentous travail  of  spiritual  conception  for  your 
students,  the  first-born  of  the  spiritual  building, 
who  have  been  able  to  follow,  with  you,  their 
Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

When  I  returned  home  from  last  evening's 
rehearsal  of  our  Oratorio  Society  (and  it  is 
significant  that  we  sang  for  the  first  time  the 
Pentecostal  song  from  "The  Redemption"),  I 
opened  to  these  words  of  our  Leader : 

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This  period  is  big  with  events  .  .  .  and  por- 
tends much  for  the  future. 

The  Scriptural  metaphors, — of  the  woman  in 
travail,  the  great  red  dragon  that  stood  ready  to 
devour  the  child  as  soon  as  it  was  born,  and  the 
husbandmen  that  said,  "This  is  the  heir:  come, 
let  us  kill  him,  that  the  inheritance  may  be  ours," 
— are  type  and  shadow  of  this  hour. 

A  mother's  love  touches  the  heart  of  God. 
.  .  .  Can  a  mother  tell  her  child  one  tithe  of 
the  agonies  that  gave  that  child  birth?  Can 
that  child  conceive  of  the  anguish,  until  she 
herself  is  become  a  mother  ? 

Do  the  children  of  this  period  dream  of  the 
spiritual  Mother's  sore  travail,  through  the  long 
night,  that  has  opened  their  eyes  to  the  light  of 
Christian  Science?  Cherish  these  new-born  child- 
ren .  .  .  that  love  which  brooded  tireless 
over  their  tender  years?  for  all  that  love  that 
hath  fed  them  with  Truth, — even  the  bread  that 
Cometh  down  from  heaven, — as  the  mother-bird 
tendeth  her  young  in  the  rock-ribbed  nest  of  the 
raven's  callow  brood!  {Miscellaneous  Writings, 
pp.  253,  254.) 

When  I  first  saw  the  R-34  on  Monday,  she 
was  bathed  in  a  blaze  of  radiant  sunlight,  sug- 

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gesting  a  rare  pearl,  which  shone  with  its  own 
luminous  lustre.  A  priceless  pearl,  fit  for  a 
royal  diadem,  such  as  our  Leader  describes  in 
her  letter  to  your  church : 

Even  the  crown  of  thorns,  which  mocked  the 
bleeding  brow  of  our  blessed  Lord,  was  over- 
crowned  with  a  diadem  of  duties  done  (Miscel- 
lany, p.  201). 

Again  the  Leader  says: 

All  revelation  (such  is  the  popular  thought!) 
must  come  from  the  schools  and  along  the  line  of 
scholarly  and  ecclesiastical  descent,  as  kings  are 
crowned  from  a  royal  dynasty.  In  healing  the 
sick  and  sinning,  Jesus  elaborated  the  fact  that 
the  healing  effect  followed  the  understanding  of 
the  divine  Principle  and  of  the  Christ-spirit  which 
governed  the  corporeal  Jesus.  For  this  Prin- 
ciple there  is  no  dynasty,  no  ecclesiastical  mono- 
poly. Its  only  crowned  head  is  immortal 
sovereignty.  Its  only  priest  is  the  spiritualized 
man  (Science  and  Health,  p.  141). 

The    dirigible    is    contructed    of    ''air-craft 
fabric''  of  finest  weave,  covered  with  aluminum 
gloss,  and  when  seen  in  a  strong  light,  she  re- 
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fleets  an  indeseribably  lovely  blue  white  light. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  that  she  arrived  on  these 
shores  just  a  year  after  the  appearance  of  the 
"new  blue  white  eagle  star  (Nova  Aquila — 
number  three)."  The  Leader  uses  the  word 
* 'fabric"  in  a  tenderly  significant  way  in  the 
Dedicatory  Sermon  to  her  Church,  The  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  Boston,  Mass. : 

"Out  of  the  mouths  of  babes  and  sucklings  Thou 
has  perfected  praise." 

.  .  .  precious  children,  your  loving  hearts  and 
deft  fingers  distilled  the  nectar  and  painted  the 
finest  flowers  in  the  fabric  of  this  history, — even 
its  centre-piece, — Mother's  Room  in  The  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  in  Boston  {Pulpit 
and  Press,  p.  8). 

Our  beloved  Leader,  the  precious,  protecting 
"mother-bird,"  in  type  and  symbol  of  the 
dirigible  R-34,  was  brooding  over  her  "first- 
born" church  and  child  and  was  tenderly  bear- 
ing her  "nestling"  on  "upward  wing,"^  in  her 

'  Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  389. 

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airship,  constructed  of  the  "fabric"  of  Love,  to 
the  Mother's  Room,  the  full  consciousness  of 
divine  Love.  She  was  "finding,"  with  her 
child,  their  "home  and  heavenly  rest,"' — and 
the  "first-born"  church  of  this  "wholly  spirit- 
ual" conception  is  your  church,  First  Church  of 
Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City.  She  seemed 
to  be  singing,  with  you,  a  universal  song  of 
Love  to  all  who  could  hear  its  heavenly  harmon- 
ies, and  to  be  saying:  "Welcome  home!  To 
your  home  in  my  heart!""  These  were  her 
first  words  spoken  at  the  last  gathering  of  her 
lambs  at  Pleasant  View.  With  her  dear  hands 
extended  in  a  world-embracing  gesture,  she 
ended  with  this  prophetic  utterance : 

To-day  is  fulfilled  the  prophecy  of  Isaiah: 
"And  the  ransomed  of  the  Lord  shall  return,  and 
come  to  Zion  with  songs  and  everlasting  joy  upon 
their  heads:  they  shall  obtain  joy  and  gladness, 
and  sorrow  and  sighing  shall  flee  away  "  (Miscel- 
lany, p.  171). 

^  Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  389. 
'  Miscellany,  page  170. 

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She  also  says : 

The  bird  of  hope  is  singing 
A  lightsome  lay,  a  cooing  call, 
And  in  her  heart  is  beating 
A  love  for  all — 
"  *Tis  peace  not  power  I  seek, 
'Tis  meet  that  man  be  meek." 

(Miscellany,  p.  341.) 

And  again  Mrs.  Eddy  says : 

Extempore 
January  i,  19 10 


O  blessings  infinite ! 

O  glad  New  Year ! 
Sweet  sign  and  substance 

Of  God's  presence  here. 


II 


Give  us  not  only  angels'  songs, 

But  Science  vast,  to  which  belongs 

The  tongue  of  angels 

And  the  song  of  songs. 

(Miscellany,  p.  354.) 

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You  gave  us  a  solemn  admonition  recently  to 
"rise  and  be  willing  to  pay  the  human  price  of 
being  a  true  Christian  Scientist,  which  is  to  lay 
the  human  self  on  the  altar  and  rise  to  a  '  wholly 
spiritual'  sense  of  God  and  man  and  God's 
universe  as  all  that  really  is." 

The  new  anthems  and  spiritual  songs  which 
we  are  singing  are  lovely  in  their  "fabric"  of 
mighty  power  and  tender  harmony.  As  we 
have  continued  to  rise  spiritually  we  have 
realized  the  import  of  the  following  words  of 
our  Leader: 

...  a  rare  revelation  of  infinite  Love,  a  new 
tone  on  the  scale  ascending,  such  as  eternity  is 
ever  sounding  {Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  292). 

In  our  singing  we  "unfold"^  with  a  shout  of 
victory  the  *' portals  everlasting,"  to  receive 
man,  the  compound  idea,  "who  death  over- 
came," the  Christ-man  in  the  image  and 
likeness  of  God. 

» "Unfold  Ye  Portals."     The  Redemption.    Gounod. 
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Your  solemn  admonition  to  rise  and  be  willing 
to  pay  the  price  of  being  a  true  Christian  Scien- 
tist was  understood  to  mean,  that  we  should 
come  out  from  the  material  senses,  or  material 
world,  as  fast  as  possible  and  demonstrate  the 
power  of  spiritual  man  in  God's  image  and 
likeness  and  the  phenomena,  or  universe,  of 
spiritual  sense. 

Yours  is  the  only  church  in  the  world  in  whose 
corner-stone  Mrs.  Eddy  left  her  name  ''with 
thine  in  unity  and  love:" 

Pleasant  View,  Concord,  N.  H. 
To  Mrs.  A.  E.  Stetson: 

Beneath  this  corner-stone,  in  this  silent,  sacred 
sanctuary  of  earth's  sweet  songs,  paeans  of  praise 
and  records  of  Omnipotence,  I  leave  my  name 
with  thine  in  unity  and  love. 

Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy. 
November  30th,  1899. 
(Reminiscences,    Sermons,    and    Correspondence, 

facing  p.  34.) 

Again  permit  me  to  refer  to  the  dirigible. 
Very  early  on  Thursday  morning,  after  it  had 
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started  on  its  return  trip,  I  opened  my  Bible  to 
the  tenth  chapter  of  Ezekiel,  which  is  headed 
'  *  The  vision  of  the  coals  of  fire  .  .  .  vision  of 
the  cherubims, "  and  my  eyes  fell  on  these  words : 

And  when  I  looked,  behold  the  four  wheels  by 
the  cherubims.    .    .    . 

The  third  the  face  of  a  lion,  and  the  fourth  the 
face  of  an  eagle.   .    .    . 

And  the  cherubims  lifted  up  their  wings,  and 
mounted  up  from  the  earth  in  my  sight:  .  .  . 
every  one  stood  at  the  door  of  the  east  gate  of  the 
Lord's  house;  and  the  glory  of  the  God  of  Israel 
was  over  them  above. 

I  did  not  know,  when  I  read  these  words,  that 
the  dirigible  had  started  on  her  return  voyage, 
as  her  meteorological  officer,  Lieutenant  Harris, 
had  told  me,  at  the  field  in  the  afternoon,  that 
she  would  not  start  before  dawn  on  Thursday. 
Do  you  recall  that  your  inscription  in  My  Spirit- 
ual Aeroplane,  for  this  particular  officer  was, 
*'And  God  said,  Let  there  be  light:  and  there 
was  light. " '     An  editorial  appeared  at  that  time 

*  Genesis  i.,  3. 

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in  The  New  York  Herald,  headed,  "Let  there  be 
light." 

Beloved  teacher,  I  saw  you  at  Mineola,  last 
Wednesday,  sitting  in  your  motor  car,  admiring 
what  material  sense  calls  a  dirigible,  R-34. 
Your  vision  of  twenty-four  years  ago  recorded 
in  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence, 
page  164,  was  there  fulfilled  in  type.  During 
these  perilous  years  you  have  never  been  sepa- 
rated from  your  ' 'Pilot "  and  "Guide"  to 
eternal  Life,  nor  have  you  been  moved  from  her 
side  on  the  rock  of  "spiritual  foundation" 
which  has  externalized  itself  in  the  R-34,  sym- 
bolizing man  liberated  from  the  fetters  of 
fleshly  conception. 

Building  on  the  rock  of  Christ's  teachings,  we 
have  a  superstructure  eternal  in  the  heavens, 
omnipotent  on  earth,  encompassing  time  and 
eternity  {Message  for  1901,  p.  25). 

In  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspond- 
ence, page  71,  you  say:  "When  man  learns  his 
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mental  spiritual  dominion,  how  buoyant  will 
become  his  step!" 

The  Leader's  words  in  her  article  on  the  Chris- 
tian Science  textbook,  in  Miscellany,  page  no, 
come  to  my  mind : 

Hidden  electrical  forces  annihilating  time  and 
space,  wireless  telegraphy,  navigation  of  the  air; 
in  fact,  all  the  et  cetera  of  mortal  mind  pressing 
to  the  front,  remind  me  of  my  early  dreams  of 
flying  in  airy  space,  buoyant  with  liberty  and  the 
luxury  of  thought  let  loose,  rising  higher  and  for- 
ever higher  in  the  boundless  blue.  .  .  .  The 
night  thought,  methinks,  should  unfold  in  part 
the  facts  of  day,  and  open  the  prison  doors  and 
solve  the  bUnd  problem  of  matter.  The  night 
thought  should  show  us  that  even  mortals  can 
mount  higher  in  the  altitude  of  being.  Mounting 
higher,  mortals  will  cease  to  be  mortal.  Christ 
will  have  "led  captivity  captive,"  and  immortal- 
ity will  have  been  brought  to  light. 

On  Monday  morning  last,  The  New  York 
Herald  chronicled  in  a  large  headHne,  these 
words  of  General  Maitland,  who  represented 
the  British  air  ministry  in  the  flight  of  the  R-34 : 

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New  York  City  appeared  to  us  as  we  circled 
above  it,  like  a  FAIRY  LAND  OF  LIGHT. 

The  delicate,  fairy-like  air-craft  ''fabric" 
with  its  pure,  fine  weave  which  forms  the  body 
of  the  R-34,  is  expressive  of  the  new-bom  child 
consciousness,  in  which  we,  her  spiritual  child- 
ren, will  reveal  our  precious  spiritual  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  as  she  comes  forth  clad  in 
her  radiant  "fabric"  of  immortality.  There 
seems  lately  to  be  a  wonderful  sense  of  universal 
spiritual  pregnancy,  a  new-bom  spiritual  sense  of 
the  imminent  revelation  of  the  first-born  of  every 
idea  in  the  body  of  Christ.  This  pervading 
sense  of  immortality  is  expressed  in  our  Leader's 
beautiful  words : 

As  sweet  music  ripples  in  one's  first  thoughts 
of  it  like  the  brooklet  in  its  meandering  midst 
pebbles  and  rocks,  before  the  mind  can  duly  ex- 
press it  to  the  ear, — so  the  harmony  of  divine 
Science  first  broke  upon  my  sense.   .    .    . 

The  divine  hand  led  me  into  a  new  world  of 
light  and  Life,  a  fresh  universe — old  to  God,  but 

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new   to    His    "little    one"    {Retrospection   and 
Introspection,  p.  27). 

God's  little  ones  in  this  "new  created  world" 
of  spiritual  sense  into  which  we  are  entering  are 
joining  the  angelic  host  and  singing,  with  them, 
their  angel  songs  and  anthems,  which  are  mental 
spiritual  messengers  to  hungering  humanity- 
longing  for  a  touch  of  Christly  love  and  immu- 
table Truth,  the  fruits  of  which  are  joy  and 
peace. 

It  is  important  to  remember,  that  the  dirigi- 
ble, with  its  delicate  fabric  body,  carries  power- 
ful motor  engines,  the  heart  of  the  craft.  These 
engines  are  driven  by  petrol.  Webster's  defini- 
tion of  petrol  is  "petroleum  spirit,  such  as  is 
used  in  producing  motive  power." 

"God  is  the  only  generating  or  regenerating 
power."'  Divine  Love  is  this  motive  power 
that  conceives,  unfolds,  directs,  and  protects 
its  own  ideas.  The  dirigible  broke  material 
laws  in  her  demonstration,  and  proved,  without 

^  Message  for  iQOi,  page  9. 

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a  tE^ribute  of  Hobe 

doubt,  the  guiding  power  and  presence  of  omni- 
potent Love.  Every  argument  of  "the  enemy 
of  good,"'  tried  to  control  her  and  force  her  to 
land  at  Boston,  but  her  dauntless  Commander 
never  swerved  from  his  course,  nor  lost  "the 
way,"  and  landed  on  the  plains  of  Mineola. 
To  human  sense,  twenty  minutes  more  would 
have  meant  the  end  of  the  fuel,  and  failure  to 
achieve  the  originally  conceived  plans. 

*'We  airmen,"  one  of  the  officers  told  me, 
"are  constantly  dealing  with  forces  we  cannot 
see.  Perhaps  that  makes  us  somewhat  con- 
centrated and  quiet."  "Spiritual  forces,"  I 
replied.  "Some  day  you  will  understand  them 
and  grasp  their  mental  spiritual  tangibiHty  and 
the  unfaiHng  operation  of  spiritual  law."  I 
gave  him  your  book,  My  Spiritual  Aeroplane, 
and  said,  "Read  this  Httle  book  receptively, 
and  it  will  be  a  guide  for  you  in  each  flight  that 
you  take."  He  assured  me  that  he  would  read 
it  with  great  interest. 

I  Miscellany,  page  358. 

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a  tlribute  of  Hobe 

Twelve  copies  of  your  precious  messenger, 
My  Spiritual  Aeroplane,  went  back  with  "The 
Lady,"  and  one  remained  here  with  an  officer  of 
the  British  air  forces  on  land,  making  thirteen 
in  all.  The  number  twelve  is  not  only  represen- 
tative of  America,  but  it  is  America's  foundation 
number,  and  the  thirteenth  state  was  added 
later.  Professor  Totten  says,  "Ephraim  [Great 
Britain]  was  and  still  is  the  generic  name  for  the 
Ten-Tribed  Israel,"  and  he  further  adds  that 
''Manasseh  .  .  .  was  forced  into  the  last  or 
13th  place"  among  the  tribes,  through  Jacob's 
act  in  adopting  Ephraim  as  the  elder.  The 
spiritual  significance  of  your  thirteen  books  is 
apparent.  Accompanying  them  on  the  R-34, 
were  thirteen  copies  of  your  Sun  article  on 
"Manasseh  and  Ephraim,"  and  many  extra 
copies  of  "Our  America,"  and  "Love's  Lulla- 
by," not  only  for  the  officers,  but  for  all  the 
crew. 

As  the  R-34  descended  from  "the  boundless 
blue  "  on  the  morning  of  July  6th,  at  her  landing, 
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a  ^tribute  of  Hobe 

a  beautiful  phenomenon  expressed  itself.  "The 
Lady"  gracefully  alighted  in  a  diamond-shaped 
anchorage,  which  had  been  especially  prepared 
to  receive  her.  One  of  the  officers  described  it 
to  me  as  a  double,  or  open  pyramid,  whose  four 
sides  held  and  protected  her.  The  straight  line 
running  through  the  centre  of  the  diamond,  or 
open  pyramid,  forming  the  common  base  of  the 
double  pyramid,  expressed  its  indivisibility. 
Manasseh  and  Ephraim  had  united.  The  twain 
had  become  one  in  Joseph.  Surrounding  the 
pyramid  were  eight  thousand  bottles  of  hydro- 
gen gas,  piled  in  the  shape  of  a  small  pyramid. 
"Eight"  is  the  resurrection  number,  and  the 
gas  is  the  essential  element  in  the  ship's  ascen- 
sion. Love  is  the  essential  element  in  the 
ascension  of  the  spiritual  aeroplane. 

Your  banner,  or  shield,  in  type,  on  the  fagade 
of  your  house,  has  been  revealed,  through  this 
phenomenon  of  unity.  You  proclaim  and  the 
wise  understand  it.  It  bears  the  reverse  side  of 
the  seal  of  the  United  States  which  is  a  pyramid, 

lOI 


a  Zvibutt  of  Xobe 

with  the  all-seeing  eye  and  this  inscription, 
"Novus  Ordo  Seclorum."  The  translation  is 
from  Virgil's  Eclogue.  *'A  new  offspring  is  let 
down  from  lofty  heaven — the  coming  man  in 
whom  the  iron  age  ends,  and  the  golden  age 
arises  in  the  whole  earth."  Thus  Prophecy  is 
being  fulfilled. 

The  R-34  resting  on  her  pyramid,  also  fulfilled 
Totten's  prophecy  regarding  the  day  to  come 
"when,  as  the  nations  [America  and  Great 
Britain,  or  Manasseh  and  Ephraim]  typified  by 
the  cherubim,  our  wings  may  touch,  over  the 
mercy  seat,  and  the  presence  of  the  God  of  our 
fathers  return  to  its  wonted  place."  Our  eagle 
with  outstretched  wings,  on  your  banner,  or 
shield,  touching  the  flags  of  both  nations  is  the 
cherubim,  of  which  Professor  Totten  speaks, 
and  is  described  by  our  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  in 
these  words,  "your  oracle,  under  the  wings  of 
the  cherubim,  is  Truth's  evangel,  enunciating 
*God  is  Love.'"^     This  spiritual  representation 

^Miscellany,  page  188. 

102 


a  tCritJUte  of  ILobe 

of  your  shield  reminds  us  of  Christ's  words  at 
his  first  appearing,  "This  do  in  remembrance  of 
me,"  "till  I  come." 

Thou  hast  given  a  banner  to  them  that  fear 
Thee,  that  it  may  be  displayed  because  of  the 
truth. 

That  Thy  beloved  may  be  delivered  (Psalm 
Ix.,  4.  5)- 

With  this  redemption  of  Israel,  in  type,  your 
banner  or  shield,  appears  as  the  new  seal,  spirit- 
ually conceived,  and  indelibly  impressed  and 
"cut,"  for  Israel  after  the  Spirit.  Your  reflec- 
tion of  the  "love  which  triumphs  over  hate  "  has 
scientifically  made  you  the  demonstrator  of  true 
Christian  Science. 

Love  must  triumph  over  hate.  Truth  and 
Life  must  seal  the  victory  over  error  and  death, 
before  the  thorns  can  be  laid  aside  for  a  crown, 
the  benediction  follow,  ''Well  done,  good  and 
faithful  servant,"  and  the  supremacy  of  Spirit 
be  demonstrated   (Science  and  Health,  pp.  43, 

44)- 

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a  ^vihntt  of  Hobe 

On  the  day  and  almost  at  the  hour,  that  the 
dirigible  touched  these  shores,  the  Leader's 
words  were  recalled : 

To  THE  Big  Children 

Father- Mother  good,  lovingly 

Thee  I  seek, — 

Patient,  meek, 
In  the  way  Thou  hast, — 
Be  it  slow  or  fast. 

Up  to  Thee. 
{Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  400.) 

Last  Sunday,  at  the  hour  when  the  dirigible 
was  landing  in  England,  the  parable  of  "the 
prodigal  son"  was  sung  in  our  church,  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City, 
and  the  sending  of  Naaman  to  Samaria  to  be 
cleansed  of  the  leprous  qualities,  of  "aggression, 
oppression  and  the  pride  of  power"'  was  read. 
He  too  had  to  become  as  a  little  child,  and  follow 
the  spiritual  guidance  of  the  little  maid  of 
Israel,  who  led  him  at  that  hour  for  healing  to 

*  Science  and  Health,  page  451. 
104 


ia  tCtibute  of  Eobe 

the  "highest  visible  idea"^  (EHsha).  Through 
obedience  and  humility,  Naaman  was  healed, 
and  his  flesh  came  again  like  unto  the  flesh  of  a 
little  child,  and  he  was  clean  (II  Kings  v.). 

To-day  I  opened  to  your  letter  to  your  student- 
body  on  page  237,  in  Reminiscences,  Sermons, 
and  Correspondence,  written  sixteen  years  ago 
from  the  Hotel  Touraine,  Boston,  on  July  15, 
1903: 

Dearly  Beloved: — 

"Stem  the  tide;  walk  triumphant  on  the  shores 
of  immortal  consciousness,  and  rest  beside  the 
still  waters  on  the  'Plains  of  Peace.'"  These 
words  I  saw  mentally  last  night,  and  as  the  letters 
came  out  and  I  spelled  them,  I  took  them  as  a 
promise  and  send  them  to  you.  .  .  . 
Take  care  of  the  lambs.  Let  each  love  more  and 
be  more  Chris tly-meek.  This  will  make  them 
mighty,  and  reflect  omnipotent  Love,  which 
destroys  all  sin. 

One  more  thought.  Jacob  gave  to  Joseph 
this  "parcel  or  field."     There  Abraham  pitched 

*  Science  and  Health,  page  560. 
105 


a  Zxibntt  of  iLobe 

his  tent,  and  built  an  altar  under  an  oak.  Major 
John  C.  Squire,  chief  signal  officer  of  the 
United  States  Army,  in  a  recent  article  entitled, 
"Tree  Telephony  and  Telegraphy"  says: 

From  the  moment  an  acorn  is  planted  in  fertile 
soil,  it  becomes  a  "detector"  and  a  "receiver"  of 
electro-magnetic  waves,  and  the  marvellous 
properties  of  this  receiver,  through  agencies  at 
present  entirely  hidden  from  us,  are  such  as  to 
vitalize  the  acorn,  and  to  produce  in  time  the 
giant  oak. 

The  R-34,  in  her  recent  accomplishment,  com- 
pleted the  third  of  the  great  aerial  flights  and 
rose  to  the  height  of  demonstration. 

The  third  stage  in  the  order  of  Christian 
Science  is  an  important  one  to  the  human 
thought,  letting  in  the  light  of  spiritual  under- 
standing. This  period  corresponds  to  the  resur- 
rection, when  Spirit  is  discerned  to  be  the  Life  of 
all,  and  the  deathless  Life,  or  Mind,  dependent 
upon  no  material  organization.  Our  Master 
reappeared  to  his  students, — to  their  apprehen- 
sion he  rose  from  the  grave, — on  the  third  day  of 
his  ascending  thought,  and  so  presented  to  them 
106 


a  VCvihutt  of  Hobe 

the  certain  sense  of  eternal  Life  {Science  and 
Health,  pp.  508,  509). 

The  spiritual  idea,  or  God's  man,  the  "King 
of  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords"  appeared  to  Abra- 
ham as  an  angel,  as  Melchizedek,  ''Having 
neither  beginning  of  days  or  end  of  lif  e. "  Moses 
beheld  the  spiritual  man  in  the  phenomenon  of 
''a  pillar  of  fire."  Isaiah  visualized  a  child, 
whose  name  shall  be  called,  "Wonderful."  To 
Ezekiel  the  ideal  man  seemed  like  a  "sapphire 
stone  .  .  .  the  appearance  of  a  throne."  The 
"wise  men"  saw  a  "star  in  the  east."  John 
beheld  "the  Holy  City  .  .  .  coming  down 
from  God  out  of  heaven,  prepared  as  a  bride 
adorned  for  her  husband." 

We,  the  lambs  of  our  Leader's  flock,  have  read 
the  "signs  of  the  times"  in  the  recent  phenome- 
non of  the  dirigible,  R-34,  and  we  see  the 
imminent  appearing  of  the  ideal  man,  Christ, 
once  known  as  Jesus — in  this  age,  known  as 
Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

Precious  teacher,  I,  one  of  the  many  grateful, 
107 


a  tribute  of  Hobe 

loving  students  of  your  flock,  offer  you  this 
simple  tribute,  letter,  or  recognition  of  your 
divine  selfhood.  I  am  striving  "to  build  .  .  . 
on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation." 

The  "wise  men,"  your  faithful  students,  have 
offered  rare  gifts  of  "gold,  frankincense  and 
myrrh,"  to  the  Christ-child  consciousness,  the 
new-born  of  Spirit,  which  you  represent.  May 
I,  with  your  loyal  students,  be  worthy  to  con- 
tinue with  you  and  your  and  our  revered 
Leader,  the  ideal  man  of  God's  creating,  in  your 
"Spiritual  Aeroplane."  Beloved  teacher,  we 
know  that  we  are  not  in  the  wilderness  of  ma- 
terial sense.  Our  spiritual  sense  is  revealing 
a  world  which  is  budding  and  blossoming  as  the 
rose.  This  rose,  or  "smile  of  God,"  conscious- 
ness, which  in  its  immortal  beauty  and  freshness 
is  growing  on  your  "Plains  of  Peace,"  seems  to 
typify  itself,  to-day,  to  me  in  this  precious  letter 
of  our  Leader  to  you  which  reads  as  follows : 

.    .    .   darling  child  mother  appreciates  your 
footsteps  of  the  flock  whom  the  great  Shepherd 
io8 


a  ^tribute  of  itobe 

are  calling  who  hear  and  follow  and  none  shall  be 
able  to  pluck  them  out  of  his  hands  (Vital 
Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  pp.  392,  393). 

Then  again  she  says : 

Here  ends  the  colloquy;  and  a  voice  from 
heaven  seems  to  say,  "Come  and  see." 

The  nineteenth-century  prophets  repeat, 
"Unto  us  a  son  is  given." 

The  shepherds  shout,  "We  behold  the  appear- 
ing of  the  star!" — and  the  pure  in  heart  clap 
their  hands  {Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  168). 

Your  loving,  grateful  student, 


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Kentucky  State  Normal  College, 
Bowling  Green,  Ky. 

June  3,  1919. 

Mrs.  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D., 

New  York  City. 

Beloved  teacher: — 

Your  beautiful  and  attractive  book.  My 
Spiritual  Aeroplane,  came  in  due  time,  but 
owing  to  my  absence  from  the  city,  I  received  it 
only  a  day  or  two  ago.  Words  are  wholly  inad- 
equate to  express  the  feeling  of  gratitude  and 
appreciation  that  welled  up  in  my  heart,  con- 
sciousness, when  I  read  the  same.  It  is  indeed  a 
veritable  thesaurus  of  spiritual  knowledge,  a 
genuine  and  trustworthy  guide  to  the  attainment 
of  spiritual  ** peace  and  joy  and  power."' 

The  book  is  fine,  superb ;  indeed  it  is  simplic- 
ity's self.  You  have  certainly  given  the  field 
food  for  thought,  expressed  in  simple  and  in- 

^  Poems,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  4. 
Ill 


0  tiriljute  of  lLo\}t 

spirational  language.  You  have  expressed  your- 
self so  clearly  and  concisely,  yet,  at  the  same 
time,  so  emphatically  and  scientifically,  that 
people,  the  world  over,  are  unconsciously  and 
without  deliberate  mental  effort,  digesting,  assi- 
milating, and  understanding  the  deep  internal 
meaning  of  the  spiritual  reality  concealed  behind 
the  mere  material  symbolism  with  regard  to  the 
Aeroplane  in  its  ascension  from  sense  to  Soul. 

The  spiritually  minded  know  that  you  have 
been  rising  heavenward  in  the  Aeroplane  of  Spirit 
for  many  years,  but  the  materially  minded  and 
the  inhabitants  of  the  material  world  have  been 
utterly  oblivious  to  this  spiritual  ascension  above 
material  conditions,  owing  to  their  blindness  to 
man's  divine  nature  as  God's  reflected  entity. 

It  is  true  you  have  never  been  separated  from 
the  spiritual  leadership  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  divine 
ego,  and  this  at-one-ment  with  her  **  gentle 
presence,"^  together  with  your  continuous  and 
instant  recognition  of  her  mental  touch  and 

'  Poems,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  4. 
112 


^  tE^xibntt  of  Hobe 

consequent  response  thereto,  has  enabled  you 
to  rise  higher  in  the  demonstration  of  divine 
Love  than  any  other  Christian  Scientist.  The 
field  sooner  or  later  must  recognize  this  fact 
since  Truth  cannot  remain  forever  concealed 
behind  a  lie,  the  mask  of  personal  sense. 

Thus  far,  I  have  not  been  separated  from  the 
divine  guidance  and  spiritual  influence  of  your 
impersonal  identity,  God's  idea,  and  I  pray 
daily,  hourly,  that  I  may  not  be.  By  following 
your  spiritual  teaching  and  example,  I  am  adher- 
ing to  the  present  highest  visible  idea  of  Love,  and 
cannot  be  separated  from  our  Beloved  Leader, 
known  to  the  world  as  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

The  peoples  of  the  entire  world  must  ulti- 
mately realize  that  you  are  "safe  above  life's 
raging  sea"  of  tempest-tossed  human  concepts. 
They  must  recognize  that  Christ  is  the  Pilot  of 
your  Spiritual  Aeroplane,  and  come  into  it,  in 
order  to  find  surcease  from  the  discordant  and 
destructive  phenomena  of  ethereal  vibrations, 
false,  illusive,  material  thoughts.     The  truth  is 

8  113 


a  titribute  o!  ILobe 

that  your  Spiritual  Aeroplane  has  never  been  out 
of  the  ''secret  place  of  the  most  High,"  "the 
atmosphere  of  Love,"  but  to  mortal  sense  it 
appears  to  be  in  a  material  world,  battling 
against  the  adverse  winds  of  error,  rising  by 
degrees  towards  the  zenith  of  spiritual  dominion. 

Several  have  expressed  a  desire  to  secure  a 
copy  of  your  book,  My  Spiritual  Aeroplane,  and 
would  like  to  know  the  price.  Kindly  notify 
me  and  I  will  inform  them. 

With  renewed  assurances  of  my  desire  and 
purpose  to  continue  in  the  upward  flight  from 
sense  to  Soul  in  the  Spiritual  Aeroplane  in 
which  you  are  soaring  and  which  must,  will,  in 
the  fulness  of  time,  or  at  the  expiration  of  time, 
reach  the  goal  of  immortality,  eternal  Life,  the 
demonstration  of  absolute  Science,  I  am, 
Your  affectionate  student, 


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Wilmington, 
North  Carolina. 

September  i,  1919. 
My  beloved  teacher: — 

To-day  I  feel  a  great  desire  to  write  you  of  a 
dream  or  vision,  which  I  had  some  time  ago.  In 
this  dream,  I  was  walking  through  the  streets  of 
Wilmington,  dressed  as  a  little  child  and  feeling 
that  I  was  a  child.  I  had  on  a  white  apron  and 
as  I  walked  along  looking  at  the  ground,  I  saw 
here  and  there  bright  pieces  of  gold.  I  stooped 
and  picked  up  each  piece,  using  my  white  apron 
to  hold  what  I  had  found.  To-day  I  feel  that 
my  dream  has  been  realized.  Through  spiritual 
sense  I  read  the  guidance  of  the  impersonal 
Christ,  who  said  and  continues  to  say  to  all  who 
follow  him,  ''Except  ye  .  .  .  become  as  little 
children,  ye  shall  not  enter  into  the  kingdom  of 
heaven."' 

« Matthew  xviii.,  3- 

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a  ©ritiute  of  Hobe 

The  pure  white  apron,  or  spiritual  sense, 
holds  the  golden  bits  of  experience,  as  we  journey 
from  a  material  sense  of  God,  man,  and  God's 
universe,  to  a  "wholly  spiritual"'  sense  of  the 
allness  of  God  and  His  infinite  ideas,  which 
compose  His  universe  or  Christ. 

So,  to-day,  dear  teacher,  I  am  divinely  im- 
pelled to  tell  you  in  this  letter,  of  my  golden  op- 
portunities to  demonstrate  the  teaching  of  our 
beloved  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  to  which 
you  have  so  strictly  adhered  and  which,  through 
persecution  without  precedent  in  the  history  of 
the  world,  you  have  fearlessly  defended  and 
demonstrated,  never  resenting  personal  indigni- 
ties and  cruel  wrongs,  but  like  David  with  his 
sling  and  stones,  you  have  met  the  Goliath  of 
material  sense  and  have  preserved  the  spiritual 
interpretation  of  Christian  Science  as  taught  by 
Christ  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  You  have 
risen  with  your  Leader  and  Teacher,  Mrs.  Eddy, 
to  the  mental  "excelsior  extension,"''  far  above 

»  Miscellany ^  page  357.  ^  Miscellany,  page  6. 

116 


la  tKriittte  of  Hobe 

material  structures  and  in  compliance  with  your 
Leader's  request,  you  have  not  been  separated' 
from  your  Leader,  the  impersonal  Christ,  at  his 
second  appearing  as  compound  idea. 

Do  you  recall  how  Miss  Mary  Bridgers  and  I, 
together  with  the  few  whom  we  had  healed  and 
taught  Christian  Science,  procured  the  charter  of 
First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  Wilmington, 
N.  C,  and  later,  the  church  edifice  was  built? 
This  was  the  first  church  edifice,  in  the  State  of 
North  Carolina,  that  was  entirely  completed 
and  paid  for  before  it  was  dedicated.  It  was  in 
Wilmington,  that  Mrs.  Eddy  met  her  first 
sorrow. 

It  was  Miss  Bridgers*  great  desire  to  establish 
Christian  Science  in  Wilmington,  and  to  devote 
her  wealth  and  her  influence  in  her  home  city, 
to  the  emancipation  of  humanity  from  bondage 
to  sin  and  suffering,  and  she  decided  to  build  a 
material  edifice,  where  people  who  were  ready 
to  follow  Christ  according  to  Christian  Science 

*  Miscellany,  page  358. 

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could  congregate  and  **  worship  the  Father  in 
spirit  and  in  truth."'  Her  desires  were  con- 
veyed to  her  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  in  letters,  and 
the  correspondence  between  Miss  Bridgers  and 
her  Leader  I  saw.  Miss  Bridgers  sent  a  model 
of  a  church  edifice  to  Mrs.  Eddy,  which  the 
architects.  Hunt  and  Hunt  of  New  York  Ctiy, 
had  produced,  but  this  model  was  abandoned, 
as  Miss  Bridgers  saw  that  our  spiritual  under- 
standing was  not  equal  to  the  erection  of  so  ex- 
pensive a  structure  and  a  beautiful  Httle  church 
edifice  was  finally  erected,  in  which  Miss 
Bridgers  and  I  officiated  as  Readers. 

Shortly  after  our  church  was  dedicated,  we 
received  a  message  from  our  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy. 
We  were  asked  to  let  her  know  how  many 
children  we  had  in  our  Sunday  School.  We 
replied  at  once,  giving  the  number.  In  a  few 
days  a  package  came  with  another  letter, 
written  by  Mr.  Calvin  A.  Frye.  In  the  pack- 
age was  a  card  for  each  child.     On  one  side  was 

'  John  iv.,  23. 

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either  the  Ten  Commandments,  or  the  Lord's 
Prayer,  with  its  spiritual  interpretation  by- 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  on  the  opposite  side  of 
the  page  a  brightly  colored  spray  of  flowers. 
A  separate  package  within  the  larger  one  con- 
tained a  card  for  Miss  Mary  Bridgers  accom- 
panied by  the  Leader's  visiting  card.  I  have 
always  felt  that  our  Leader  was  urging  us  to 
see,  with  her,  some  great  metaphysical  fact  and 
to-day  I  feel  that  the  hour  has  come  for  us  to 
read  the  lesson  which  she  tried  then  to  impart  to 
us. 

When  our  church  received  the  beautiful  Estey 
organ,  a  personal  gift  from  you  and  members  of 
your  Board  of  Trustees  of  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  New  York  City  (it  was  not  a  gift  from 
the  church),  great  gratitude  was  expressed  by 
our  members.  During  Miss  Bridgers'  and  my 
occupancy  of  the  pulpit,  as  Readers,  and  as 
your  students,  the  organ  seemed  to  send  forth 
its  support  of  the  Leader's  beautiful  hymns, 
and  we  gained  fresh  inspiration  to  go  on  in 
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demonstration   over   the   material   senses,  the 
material  world,  and  the  claim  of  evil. 

Let  me  insert  here  the  telegram  sent  to  us  by 
Mrs.  Eddy  at  the  dedication  of  our  church : 

First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
Wilmington,  N.  C. 

My  Beloved  Brethren: — At  this  dedicatory 
season  of  your  church  edifice  in  the  home  of  my 
heart,  I  send  loving  congratulations,  join  with 
you  in  song  and  sermon.  God  will  bless  the 
work  of  your  hearts  and  hands. 
Pleasant  View,  Concord,  N.  H., 
July  27,  1907. 

{Miscellany,  p.  197.) 

The  "Composite  Letter"'  which  you  sent  to 
Mrs.  Eddy,  a  copy  of  which  you  gave  to  Miss 
Bridgers  and  to  me,  opened  our  spiritual  eyes 
to  the  great  fact  that  you  had  risen  to  conceive 
man  in  God's  image  and  likeness  and  that  some 
of  your  students  were  developing  spiritually  and 

^  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  pages  134-156. 
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were  beginning  to  behold  you  and  each  other 
and  all  as  ideas  of  God.  They  were  awaking  to 
the  spiritual  meaning  of  "the  scientific  state- 
ment of  being, "^  viz.,  that  ''man  is  not  mate- 
rial; he  is  spiritual.  ""^  They  began  to  realize 
the  necessity  of  restoring  their  spiritual  sense, 
through  which  to  see  all  as  ideas  of  God 
and  to  repudiate  the  false  material  image  com- 
posed of  flesh,  blood,  and  bones  as  any  part 
of  God's  creation.  They  refused  to  be  deceived 
by  "the  image  of  the  beast"''  and  worked  to 
reveal  God's  man  in  the  "image"  of  Life  and 
Love. 

This  "Composite  Letter"  was  given  to  the 
field  and  the  separation  between  those  who  were 
in  material  sense  and  those  who  were  unfold- 
ing spiritually,  began.  Those  to  whom  mate- 
rial sense  and  its  embodied  beliefs,  that  mat- 
ter, so-called  man,  was  real,  these  denounced 
you  and  cast  you  out  of  material  organization. 
This  was  all  in  divine  order  and  you  rose  with 

» Science  and  Health,  page  468.         '  Revelation  xiii.,  15. 
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your  Leader  to  see  man  as  not  material  but 
spiritual. 

Our  church  advertisement  was  dropped  from 
The  Christian  Science  Journal  because  Miss 
Bridgers  and  I  and  others  who  understood  the 
"Composite  Letter,"  would  not  yield  our  spirit- 
ual convictions  to  the  aggressive  mental  sug- 
gestions of  those  who  had  not  risen  to  behold 
man,  through  spiritual  sense,  as  idea. 

When  Miss  Bridgers  was  informed  that  her 
church  card  was  removed  from  the  advertising 
columns  of  The  Christian  Science  Journal  and 
that  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  Wilming- 
ton, N.  C,  was  refused  acknowledgment  as  a 
church,  she  received  a  mental  shock  which,  in  a 
few  days,  proved  fatal.  Though  striving  faith- 
fully to  demonstrate  Christian  Science  and 
adhering  to  the  teaching  of  Christian  Science, 
trusting  Truth  and  refusing  medical  aid,  yet 
her  spiritual  realization  was  not  sufficient  to 
enable  her  to  demonstrate  over  the  loss  of  her 
church  and  in  a  few  days  she  passed  on.     Again 

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Mrs.  Eddy  was  deprived  of  a  faithful  follower, 
whose  spiritual  understanding  and  social  position 
would  have  proved  valuable  in  attracting  people 
to  a  religion,  which  Miss  Bridgers  had  accepted 
and  publicly  endorsed. 

Let  me  here  insert  Mrs.  Eddy's  letter  to  her 
"dear  brethren  in  New  York,"  also  your  reply 
to  her: 


THE  WAY  OF  WISDOM 

MARY   BAKER   EDDY 

No  man  can  serve  two  masters:  for  either  he 
will  hate  the  one,  and  love  the  other;  or  else  he 
will  hold  to  the  one,  and  despise  the  other.  Ye 
cannot  serve  God  and  mammon. — Matthew 
6:24. 

The  infinite  is  One,  and  this  One  is  Spirit; 
Spirit  is  God,  and  this  God  is  infinite  good. 

This  simple  statement  of  oneness  is  the  only 

possible   correct   version   of   Christian   Science. 

God  being  infinite,  He  is  the  only  basis  of  Science; 

hence  materiality  is  wholly  apart  from  Christian 

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Science,  and  is  only  a  "suffer  it  to  be  so  now" 
until  we  arrive  at  the  spiritual  fulness  of  God, 
Spirit,  even  the  divine  idea  of  Christian  Science, — 
Christ, — born  of  God, — the  offspring  of  Spirit, — 
wherein  matter  has  neither  part  nor  portion,  be- 
cause matter  is  the  absolute  opposite  of  spiritual 
means,  manifestation,  and  demonstration.  The 
only  incentive  of  a  mistaken  sense  is  malicious 
animal  magnetism, — the  name  of  all  evil, — and 
this  must  be  understood. 

I  have  crowned  The  Mother  Church  building 
with  the  spiritual  modesty  of  Christian  Science, 
which  is  its  jewel.  When  my  dear  brethren  in 
New  York  desire  to  build  higher, — to  enlarge 
their  phylacteries  and  demonstrate  Christian 
Science  to  a  higher  extent, — they  must  begin  on  a 
wholly  spiritual  foundation,  than  which  there  is 
no  other,  and  proportionably  estimate  their  suc- 
cess and  glory  of  achievement  only  as  they  build 
upon  the  rock  of  Christ,  the  spiritual  foundation. 
This  will  open  the  way,  widely  and  impartially, 
to  their  never-ending  success, — to  salvation  and 
eternal  Christian  Science. 

Spirit  is  infinite ;  therefore  Spirit  is  all.  "  There 
is  no  matter"  is  not  only  the  axiom  of  true  Chris- 
tain  Science,  but  it  is  the  only  basis  upon  which 
this  Science  can  be  demonstrated. 

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"WHERE  SHALL  WISDOM  BE  FOUND?" 
New  York,  N.  Y.,  January  17,  1909. 

Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 

Chestnut  Hill,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Revered  Leader: — When  searching  for  the  an- 
swer to  Job's  question,  "  Where  shall  wisdom  be 
found?  and  where  is  the  place  of  understanding? " 
we  found  it  in  you,  our  beloved  Leader,  who  are 
wisdom's  mouthpiece  to  this  age. 

The  demonstration  of  our  church  is  the  direct 
result  of  your  instructions  obeyed,  and  we  shall 
continue  to  follow,  as  you  forever  lead  on,  in  "The 
Way  of  Wisdom."  You  are  continually  pouring 
into  our  lamps  the  oil  of  consecration,  and  we  are 
drinking  of  the  wine  of  inspiration,  which  you 
provide.  The  word  has  gone  forth,  "Hurt  not 
the  oil  and  the  wine." 

In  grateful  acknowledgment  of  the  redemp- 
tion of  the  first-born,  mindful  of  the  ever-present 
protection  of  divine  Love,  we  will  enlarge  our 
spiritual  phylacteries,  binding  them  as  frontlets 
between  our  eyes,  that  we  may  "demonstrate 
Christian  Science  to  a  higher  extent."  Having 
completed  our  demonstration  of  the  church  mili- 
tant, we  will  strive  more  earnestly  to  attain  the 

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higher  understanding,  which  will  reveal  the 
Church  Triumphant,  where  "Spirit  is  infinite; 
therefore  Spirit  is  all. ' '  No  mistaken  sense,  whose 
incentive  is  in  malicious  animal  magnetism,  can 
prevent  this  unfolding. 

The  "spiritual  modesty"  with  which  you  have 
"crowned  The  Mother  Church  building"  has 
been  and  ever  will  be  our  abiding  inspiration  in 
building  upon  "a  wholly  spiritual  foundation." 
Glorious,  indeed,  is  it  to  have  the  horizon  of  our 
spiritual  vision  thus  widened  by  virtue  of  your 
vigils  on  the  watch-tower  of  Zion. 
Loyally  yours. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  New  York  City. 

E.  F.  Hatfield,  Chairman, 
John  D.  Higgins,  Clerk. 

{The  Christian  Science  Journal,  vol.  xxvi.,  pp. 
696,  697.) 

It  is  significant  that  her  call  was  made  to  her 
*  *  dear  brethren  in  New  York ' '  and  that  only  you 
and  your  Trustees  responded  to  her  letter. 
You  were  then  fast  rising  out  of  material  organi- 
zation, unfolding  your  spiritual  power  and  from 
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her  letter  to  her  "dear  brethren  in  New  York" 
and  from  the  reply  you  and  your  Trustees  sent 
to  her,  you  will  see,  my  dear  teacher,  that  Mrs. 
Eddy  knew  that  you  were  ready  to  ''begin"  to 
build  ' '  on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation. ' '  Her 
prayer  was  answered  when  you  sent  your 
''Composite  Letter"  to  her  and  she  understood. 

From  that  time  you  rose  above  the  mental 
missiles  which  were  aimed  at  you  to  "separate 
you  from  your  Leader."^  You  have  continued 
to  soar  beyond  the  aim  of  the  poison-barbed 
mental  arrows  into  the  spiritual  atmosphere  of 
Life  and  Love.  Spiritual  power,  the  reflection 
of  Love  and  Truth,  is  enabling  you  to  demon- 
strate genuine  Christian  Science,  as  taught  by 
Christ  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  Any 
element  of  resentment,  revenge,  or  human  pride 
of  material  place  or  power,  or  self-love,  during 
the  last  ten  years  of  continued  persecution  for 
your  defence  of  the  teaching  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
— I   repeat,  any  resentment,  revenge,  or  ad- 

^  Miscellany,  page  358. 

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mission  of  the  reality  of  the  carnal  mind  in  any 
form  it  may  assume,  would  have  destroyed 
you  and  cast  you  back  into  material  sense  and 
material  organization.  You  have  not  been 
separated  from  your  Leader.  You  did  not  cling 
to  idols,  nor  to  any  human  attachment  to  your 
students,  who  were  not  ready  to  rise  with  you. 

You  and  your  faithful  students  throughout  the 
world  have  come  up  out  of  great  tribulation 
and  are  now  singing  the  song  of  the  redeemed 
and  are  coming  to  Zion  with  everlasting  joy 
upon  their  heads.  Spiritual  definition  of  Zion : 
''Spiritual  foundation  and  superstructure;  in- 
spiration; spiritual  strength."' 

The  members  of  your  Oratorio  Society^  are 
blending  their  voices  with  the  invisible  host  who 
are  chanting: 

Now  is  come  salvation,  and  strength,  and  the 
kingdom  of  our  God,  and  the  power  of  His  Christ : 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  599. 

»The  Oratorio  Society  of  the  New  York  City  Christian 
Science  Institute. 

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for  the  accuser  of  our  brethren  is  cast  down,  which 
accused  them  before  our  God  day  and  night 
(Revelation  xii.,  lo). 

When  Mrs.  Eddy  sent  her  Dedicatory  Address 
to  The  Mother  Church  Extension,  she  knew  that 
the  crowning  of  her  work  in  Boston  was  accom- 
pHshed.  She  closed  in  her  Church  the  room 
known  as  "Mother's  Room"  and  rose  above 
material  organization.  She  called  her  students 
to  follow  her  into  the  "excelsior  extension" 
or  spiritual  consciousness.  Finally  she  will 
demonstrate  her  teaching,  as  did  Christ  Jesus. 

*  *  Unto  them  that  look  for  him  shall  he  appear 
the  second  time  without  sin  unto  salvation."' 
We  are  looking  for  the  reappearing  of  the  com- 
pound idea,  which  first  appeared  as  Christ  Jesus 
and  in  the  fulness  of  time,  as  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 
Christ  never  left  the  earth  and  is  leading  us  on 
to  spiritual  vision,  which  reveals  God  and  His 
infinite  manifestation,  man. 

Let  me  here  insert  a  part  of  Mrs.  Eddy's 

*  Hebrews  ix.,  28. 

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address    to    The    Mother    Church    Extension, 
which  will  bring  it  freshly  to  your  mind : 

You  have  dexterously  and  wisely  provided  for 
The  Mother  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  a  magnifi- 
cent temple  wherein  to  enter  and  pray.  Greatly 
impressed  and  encouraged  thereby,  deeply  do  I 
thank  you  for  this  proof  of  your  progress,  unity, 
and  love.  The  modest  edifice  of  The  Mother 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  began  with  the  cross; 
its  excelsior  extension  is  the  crown.  The  room 
of  your  Leader  remains  in  the  beginning  of  this 
edifice,  evidencing  the  praise  of  babes  and  the 
word  which  proceedeth  out  of  the  mouth  of  God. 
Its  crowning  ultimate  rises  to  a  mental  monu- 
ment, a  superstructure  high  above  the  work  of 
men's  hands,  even  the  outcome  of  their  hearts, 
giving  to  the  material  a  spiritual  significance — 
the  speed,  beauty,  and  achievements  of  goodness. 
Methinks  this  church  is  the  one  edifice  on  earth 
which  most  prefigures  self-abnegation,  hope, 
faith;  love  catching  a  glimpse  of  glory  {Alis- 
cellany,  p.  6). 

Mrs.  Eddy  says  "this  church,"  this  ''mental 
monument,"   rises   "high   above   the   work  of 
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men's  hands."  Christian  Science  reveals  to  us 
that  this  "mental  monument"  is  composed  of 
those  who  are  building  on  ''a  wholly  spiritual 
foundation,"  or  consciousness,  the  Mind  of 
Christ.  It  is  the  one  spiritual  edifice  on  earth, 
which  was  built  on  ''self-abnegation,"  leaving 
all  for  Christ,  ''hope,  faith;  love  catching  a 
glimpse  of  glory."  Man  is  God's  glory,  as  idea. 
Spiritual  sense  only  reveals  this  and  man  in 
God's  image  will  be  recognized,  when  the  ma- 
terial structure  disappears. 

Mrs.  Eddy  says  the  "excelsior  extension  is 
the  crown."  Spiritual  sense  crowns  all  who 
follow  Christ.  Webster's  definition  of  excelsior 
is:  "more  lofty;  still  higher;  ever  upward — 
Excelsior  State,  New  York;  from  the  motto 
'Excelsior'  upon  its  coat  of  arms."  On  the 
great  seal  of  the  State  of  New  York  will  be  found 
one  word,  "Excelsior." 

You  and  your  faithful  students,  who  began 
and  have  continued  "to  build  ...  on  a  wholly 
spiritual  foundation,"  the  Mind  of  Christ,  are  in 
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the  mental  "excelsior  extension."  You  were 
sent  to  the  State  of  New  York,  the  Excelsior 
State,  and  your  Leader  put  you  over  her  branch 
church,  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New 
York  City.  She  placed  her  name  with  yours 
"in  unity  and  love"'  in  the  corner-stone  of  your 
church.  You  have  remained  at  your  post. 
You  have  risen  and  continue  to  rise  in  the 
"excelsior  extension."  Our  great  Leader  will 
come  and  claim  her  redeemed.  All  who  com- 
pose the  "excelsior  extension,"  "The  structure 
of  Truth  and  Love,"  the  Church  Triumphant, 
will  hear,  "Come,  ye  blessed  of  my  Father, 
inherit  the  kingdom  prepared  for  you  from  the 
foundation  of  the  world.  "^ 

Her  gift  to  you,  beloved  teacher,  was  the 
crown,  together  with  this  message,  within  her 
message,  which  only  the  wise  can  read,  and 
which  was  sent  by  her  on  the  occasion  of  the 

'Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  facing  page 

34- 

2  Matthew  xxv.,  34. 

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dedication  of  the  Extension  of  The  Mother 
Church. 

Definition  of  Church: 

The  structure  of  Truth  and  Love;  whatever 
rests  upon  and  proceeds  from  divine  Principle 
(Science  and  Health,  p.  583). 

To  you,  my  dear  teacher,  belongs  this 
sacred  legacy,  given  to  you  by  our  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy.  It  is  you  alone  who  have 
stood  for  the  true  idea  of  Christ,  and  have  con- 
tended for  the  first  and  second  appearing  of  the 
one  divine  individuality.  It  is  you  who  have  met , 
in  this  hour,  the  Herods  of  all  time,  in  their  deter- 
mination to  destroy  the  spiritual  idea,  the  ideal 
man.  It  is  you  and  those  who  have  stood  with 
you,  who,  to-day,  stand  on  the  rock,  Christ,  in  the 
"excelsior  extension"  of  the  "house  not  made 
with  hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens  " '  (harmony). 

When  they  therefore  were  come  together,  they 
asked  of  him,  saying.  Lord,  wilt  thou  at  this  time 
restore  again  the  kingdom  to  Israel? 

» II  Corinthians  v.,  i. 


a  tCribute  of  ILobt 

And  he  said  unto  them,  It  is  not  for  you  to 
know  the  times  or  the  seasons,  which  the  Father 
hath  put  in  His  own  power.  .  .  . 

And  when  he  had  spoken  these  things,  while 
they  beheld,  he  was  taken  up;  and  a  cloud 
received  him  out  of  their  sight. 

And  while  they  looked  stedfastly  toward 
heaven  as  he  went  up,  behold,  two  men  stood  by 
them  in  white  apparel ; 

Which  also  said.  Ye  men  of  Galilee,  why  stand 
ye  gazing  up  into  heaven?  this  same  Jesus,  which 
is  taken  up  from  you  into  heaven,  shall  so  come  in 
like  manner  as  ye  have  seen  him  go  into  heaven 
(Actsi.,  6,  7,  9-ii)- 

Beloved,  it  is  your  understanding  of  the  Spirit 
and  your  possession  of  the  Mind  of  Christ, 
which  has  placed  the  crown  of  spiritual  power 
upon  you  and  which  makes  you  an  heir  of 
God  and  joint-heir  with  Christ  Jesus  and 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the  compound  ideal  man  of 
God's  creating. 

You  have  faithfully  taught  others  to  obey  the 
call  of  our  beloved  Leader  ''to  begin  ...  to 
build  on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation"  and 
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your  reward  to-day  is  in  your  faithful  students, 
who  are  built  with  their  Leader  and  with  you, 
into  the  ''excelsior  extension,"  the  structure  of 
Life,  Love,  and  Truth. 

Your  loving  student, 


^&lo^    ImZjz^ 


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September  lO,  19 19. 

To  our  dear  teacher,  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D. 
The  faithful  and  beloved  disciple  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

Dear  teacher: — 

When,  at  our  Oratorio  rehearsal  last  evening, 
you  gave  us  the  spiritual  purport  of  our  anthem, 
"Arise  and  thresh,  O  daughter  of  Zion,"^  and 
insisted  upon  our  spiritual  realization  of  the 
import  of  these  words  in  this  momentous  hour, 
when  Christ  and  they  that  are  Christ's  must 
arise  and  thresh  the  chaff  from  the  wheat  in 
individual  and  universal  consciousness,  begin- 
ning at  one's  own  human  belief  of  life  and  intelli- 
gence in  matter;  as  you  lifted  us  into  a  higher 
sense  of  our  God-given  dominion  over  the  claim 

'Micahiv.,  13. 


^  tiribute  at  Hobe 

of  evil,  I  recalled  an  incident  that  occurred 
many  years  ago. 

Entering  a  granary,  I  observed  a  flail  lying 
on  the  floor,  where  it  had  been  left  by  a  man 
in  charge  of  the  threshing.  While  I  had  no 
knowledge  of  how  to  handle  a  flail,  I  picked 
the  instrument  up  and  endeavored  to  use 
it. 

A  flail  is  constructed  of  two  pieces  of  hard, 
tough  wood  each  about  forty  inches  in  length. 
The  best  wood  known  for  the  purpose  is  live  oak, 
which  must  be  split  direct  from  the  log,  that  is, 
there  must  be  no  cross-grain,  which  would  be 
the  case  if  the  stick  were  sawn.  This  wondrous 
tree,  the  evergreen  oak,  may  be  justly  termed 
the  king  of  the  forest,  because  of  its  staunch 
and  symmetrical  character.  The  live  oak,  like 
the  eagle,  is  remarkable  for  longevity.  It  is 
admitted  to  be  one  of  the  most  beautiful  of 
trees,  its  branches  being  continuously  clothed 
with  foHage  of  a  rich,  deep  green  hue.  Every 
tempest's  blast  sends  its  roots  deeper  into  the 
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^  Wxibntt  of  ICobe 

soil,  and  enhances  its  stately  appearance.  The 
live  oak  is  symbolical  of  you,  dear  teacher. 

The  flail  is  an  instrument  used  for  threshing 
the  grain,  in  order  to  separate  the  wheat  from  the 
chaff — the  chaff  to  be  bundled  and  burned,  the 
wheat  to  be  garnered.  The  construction  of 
the  flail  is  as  follows.  The  two  sections  of  the  flail 
are  hinged  together  with  rawhide.  One  piece  is 
used  as  a  shaft  and  the  other  for  threshing. 

In  threshing,  as  in  the  case  of  a  woodman's 
axe,  the  blow  must  be  struck  straight  from  the 
shoulder,  allowing  the  threshing  end  to  drop  with 
full  force  on  the  sheaf,  otherwise  the  flail  will 
double  up  and  strike  back  on  the  operator's 
shoulders.     This  reminds  me  of  the  Scripture: 

The  government  shall  be  upon  his  shoulder: 
and  his  name  shall  be  called  Wonderful,  Counsel- 
lor, The  mighty  God,  The  everlasting  Father, 
The  Prince  of  Peace  (Isaiah  ix.,  6). 

It  is  evident  to  the  Christian  Scientist,  that 
the  government  is  upon  the  shoulder  of  Christ 
and  that  he  is  using  "the  sword  of  the  Spirit, 
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which  is  the  word  of  God,"'  the  mental  flail, 
with  full  force,  stirring  evil  to  self-destruction, 
as  is  evidenced  by  the  chaos  and  confusion  of  the 
material  world  at  this  hour.  Evil  is  loudly- 
proclaiming  its  self-annihilation.  Here  let  me 
recall  our  great  Leader's  statement : 

The  chaos  of  mortal  mind  is  made  the  stepping- 
stone  to  the  cosmos  of  immortal  Mind  {Unity 
of  Good,  p.  56.) 

Illustrious  teacher  (definition  of  illustrious, 
** eminent  by  reason  of  genius  or  achievement; 
.  .  .  as,  an  illustrious  author;  an  illustrious 
soldier"),  when  our  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
held  your  hand,  during  the  rendering  of  this 
anthem  by  your  choir  at  her  home  in  Concord, 
N.  H.,  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  she  knew 
full  well  the  sturdy  oak  of  which  you  were 
built.  She  knew  that  the  tempestuous  blasts 
could  not  uproot  your  well  grounded  faith  nor 
your  understanding  of  Christian  Science. 

^Ephesians  vi.,  17. 

^Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondew.e,  page  31. 
140 


ai  5Critiute  of  Xobe 

In  selecting  you  to  preach  and  teach  and 
demonstrate  Christian  Science  in  New  York 
City,  Mrs.  Eddy  discerned  in  you  the  reliable 
one,  who  would  use  the  spiritual  flail  to  separate 
the  chaff  from  the  wheat,  who  would  never 
deviate  one  iota  from  her  teaching  and  that  you 
were  the  one  against  whom  "the  enemy  of 
good"'  could  not  prevail.  She  knew  that  you 
would  "hew  the  tall  oak  and  .  .  .  cut  the  rough 
granite."^  With  prophetic  vision,  she  beheld 
you  in  the  jront  of  battle,  sounding  the  bugle 
call  and  preserving  a  "remnant  of  her  seed."^ 
She  knew  how  deeply  you  were  rooted  in  Truth 
and  Love  and  that  you  would  remain  steadfast 
to  the  end  of  the  warfare  between  the  material 
and  the  spiritual  senses. 

She  knew  that  you,  the  first-born  of  her  spirit- 
ual conception,  could  and  would  demonstrate 
Christian  Science,  for  yourself,  and  would 
demand  strict  obedience  to  Christian  Science  as 

» Miscellany,  page  358.       '  Science  and  Health,  Preface  vii. 
3  Revelation  xii.,  17. 

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taught  by  her;  that  you  would  ''occupy"'  till 
she  appeared  in  demonstration  of  her  teach- 
ing, that  "man  is  spiritual,"^  an  eternal  eman- 
ation of  infinite  Spirit.  ''Spirit  is  infinite; 
therefore  Spirit  is  all."^ 

Let  me  conclude  with  the  last  verse  of  **The 
Oak  on  The  Mountain's  Summit,"  from  our 
Leader's  Poems,  page  20 : 

Faithful  and  patient  be  my  life  as  thine ; 
As  strong  to  wrestle  with  the  storms  of  time; 
As  deeply  rooted  in  a  soil  of  love ; 
As  grandly  rising  to  the  heavens  above. 

Yours  to  thresh  the  sheaves  of  wheat. 
Faithfully  and  gratefully  your  loyal  student's 
student, 


»  Luke  xix.,  13.  Science  and  Health,  page  468. 

3  Miscellany,  page  357. 


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The  Braender, 
Central  Park  West. 

September  25,  1919. 
Beloved  teacher: — 

Your  revival,  two  years  ago,  of  sacred  song 
and  Oratorio,  in  the  worship  of  God  and  His 
Christ,  upon  the  foundation  of  your  early  work 
in  the  history  of  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scien- 
tist, New  York  City,  viz.,  the  worship  of  our 
creator,  Life,  Love,  and  Truth,  in  sacred  song, 
as  well  as  in  ''Science"  and  "sermon,"  this 
revival  has  quickened  the  divine  activities — the 
Word  of  God,  as  voiced  in  music  and  in  your 
ever-increasing  spiritual  inspiration,  to  which 
your  advanced  students  respond,  and  confirms 
Mrs.  Eddy's  words : 

Whatever  inspires  with  wisdom,  Truth,  or 
Love — be  it  song,  sermon,  or  Science — blesses 
the  himian  family  with  crumbs  of  comfort  from 

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Christ's  table,  feeding  the  hungry  and  giving 
living  waters  to  the  thirsty  {Science  and  Health, 
p.  234)- 

The  manifestation  of  man,  whom  God  made 
in  His  own  "image"  and  "likeness"  and  to 
whom  He  gave  "dominion  .  .  .  over  all  the 
earth,"'  means  more  to  me  than  words  can 
convey. 

You  continue,  as  at  the  first,  to  praise  God  in 
the  same  words  and  music  which  inspired  you 
and  your  students  thirty  years  ago,  but  with  an 
increase  of  spiritual  power,  which  stimulates 
your  students  to  fulfil  the  law  of  Love,  as  they 
herald  the  approaching  Christ,  with  songs  of 
praise  and  prepare  to  meet  him,  with  '  *  everlast- 
ing joy  upon  their  heads.  "^ 

At  the  first  awakening  of  spiritual  sense,  the 
operation  of  Spirit,  God,  begins  and  expresses 
harmony,  melody,  rhythm,  music,  heaven, 
through  God's  idea,  man.     This  divine  law,  in 

» Genesis  i.,  26.  *  Isaiah  xxxv.,  10. 

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action,  continually  unfolds  man's  possibilities. 
Mrs.  Eddy  sanctions  this  in  Miscellaneous  Writ- 
ings, on  page  183,  ''Man  is  God's  image  and 
likeness ;  whatever  is  possible  to  God,  is  possible 
to  man  as  God's  reflection.'* 

The  characters  and  events  which  made  his- 
tory in  the  early  stage  of  your  care  of  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City,  over 
which  our  beloved  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
placed  you,  prefigure,  in  a  remarkable  way, 
and  on  an  ever-ascending  spiritual  scale,  the 
characters  and  events  that  follow  in  succes- 
sion as  manifested  in  your  great  Oratorio 
Society.^  Each  repeats  the  earlier  types,  but 
in  more  exalted  expression,  proving  that  on  our 
journey  from  sense  to  Soul,  material  concepts, 
material  personalities,  material  organization, 
like  all  earthly  shadows,  vanish,  while  the 
spiritual  man,  the  manifestation,  or  ideal  man, 
the  reflector  of  Life  and  Love,   Spirit,   God, 

2  The  Oratorio  Society  of  the  New  York  City  Christian 
Science  Institute. 

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Principle,  appears  with  more  effulgence,  and 
with  increased  revelation  that  God,  man,  and 
the  universe  are  one  and  all ;  and  that  so-called 
evil,  mortal  thought,  has  no  reaHty.  "It  is 
neither  person,  place,  nor  thing."' 

As  the  veil  of  belief  in  a  power  and  presence 
opposed  to  eternal  Life  and  Love  grows  thinner, 
God  reveals  Himself  more  clearly  to  us  in  differ- 
ing phases  and  forms,  one  of  which  is  music. 
Our  vision  has  been  cleared,  through  piercing 
the  clouds  of  material  sense,  which  are  fast 
dissolving  under  the  sunUght  of  Truth  and  Love. 

From  the  beginning  of  your  work  in  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City,  I 
have  walked  with  you,  as  your  student,  for  over 
thirty  years,  and  though,  at  first  I  faintly  dis- 
cerned the  spiritual  import  of  Christian  Science, 
at  length  I  began  the  worship  of  God  in  spirit 
and  in  truth  and  caught  and  learned  the  meaning 
of  Mrs.  Eddy's  fondness  for  spiritual  music. 
She  declares : 

2  Science  and  Health,  page  71. 
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Music  is  the  harmony  of  being ;  but  the  music 
of  Soul  affords  the  only  strains  that  thrill  the 
chords  of  feeling  and  awaken  the  heart's  harp- 
strings  {Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  io6). 

It  is  just  thirty-three  years  since  you  demon- 
strated music  in  your  church  choir.  I  remem- 
ber when  you  were  ordained  as  Pastor  of  your 
church  that  Mrs.  Eddy  gave  you  the  title  of 
Reverend.  Mrs.  Eddy  considered  music  an 
important  factor  and  established  it  in  her 
Church  service,  in  The  Mother  Church,  The 
First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  Boston,  Mass., 
and  you  followed  in  her  footsteps. 

One  of  the  anthems  we  are  singing  to-day, 
''The  Lord  is  my  strength  and  song,  and  is 
become  my  salvation;  I  shall  not  die,  but 
live,  and  declare  the  works  of  the  Lord"' 
was  composed  for  Mrs.  Eddy  by  your 
student,  who  conducted  your  choir  at  that 
time. 

Mrs.  Eddy  requested  you  to  have  your  choir 

*  Exodus  XV.,  2;  Psalm  cxviii.,  17. 


^  tBtibntt  of  Hobe 

sing  this  anthem'  at  the  dedication  of  her 
Church  Edifice,  The  Mother  Church  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  which  was  dedicated  on  January  6,  1895. 
You  met,  from  the  first,  from  the  materiaHsts, 
much  opposition  to  your  demand  for  spiritual 
music,  as  essential  in  revealing  Truth,  as  taught 
in  Christian  Science,  but  your  spiritual  leadings 
and  convictions  enabled  you  to  keep  your  feet 
upon  the  Rock  and  you  never  lost  the  chord 
of  Christ. 

Permit  me  to  quote  Mrs.  Eddy's  reference  to 
music : 

Once  I  was  passionately  fond  of  material 
music,  but  jarring  elements  among  musicians 
weaned  me  from  this  love  and  wedded  me  to 
spiritual  music,  the  music  of  Soul.  ...  I 
want  not  only  quality,  quantity,  and  variation 
in  tone,  but  the  unction  of  Love.  Music  is 
divine.  Mind,  not  matter,  makes  music;  and 
if  the  divine  tone  be  lacking,  the  human  tone 
has  no  melody  for  me   (Message  for  iqoo,  p. 

II). 

^  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  page  27. 
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a  tlribute  of  Hobe 

Despite  the  opposition  and  injustice  that 
seemed  to  hush  your  singing  voice  for  a  time, 
you  continued  to  chant  the  song  of  the  redeemed 
and  you  and  your  students,  who  have  kept  their 
eyes  fixed  on  the  goal,  immortality,  are  now 
singing  above  the  roar  of  the  dragon,  which  is 
casting  forth  "a  new  flood"  of  powerless 
explosives — so-called  human  will,  atomic  force, 
or  human  energy,  which  claims  to  oppose  itself 
to  the  divine  energy — the  will  of  Christ.  Mrs. 
Eddy  says  * 

What  if  the  old  dragon  should  send  forth  a  new 
flood  to  drown  the  Christ-idea?  He  can  neither 
drown  your  voice  with  its  roar,  nor  again  sink 
the  world  into  the  deep  waters  of  chaos  and 
old  night.  In  this  age  the  earth  will  help  the 
woman;  the  spiritual  idea  will  be  understood. 
Those  ready  for  the  blessing  you  impart  will  give 
thanks.  The  waters  will  be  pacified,  and  Christ 
will  command  the  wave  {Science  and  Health,  p.  570) . 

Dear  teacher,  you  were  only  hidden  from  the 
"enemy  of  good"^  for  a  while,  that  you  might 

^  Miscellany,  page  358. 

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0  tCribute  of  Hobe 

bring  together,  in  a  fuller  light,  all  the  great 
work  you  have  accomplished,  revealing  more 
perfectly  divine  music  and  its  power  to  proclaim 
the  ever-presence,  omnipotence,  and  allness  of 
God  and  His  Christ,  the  spiritual  universe. 

The  realization  of  the  spiritual  fact,  viz., 
*  *  Spirit  is  infinite ;  therefore  Spirit  is  all.  '  There 
is  no  matter, '"^  you  have  attained,  to  a  degree 
of  conviction  which  environs  you  in  an  impreg- 
nable fortress  of  divine  Love.  You  have  gained 
your  passport  to  the  ''new  heaven"  and  the 
*'new  earth"''  through  self-sacrifice,  unselfed 
love,  meekness,  humility,  patience  in  tribulation 
and  persecution,  and  obedience  to  the  law  of 
God,  as  voiced  through  your  Teacher  and  our 
Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  She  says,  "What- 
ever holds  human  thought  in  line  with  unselfed 
love,  receives  directly  the  divine  power.  "^ 

You  have  blessed  your  enemies,  by  making 
their  injustice  and  cruelty  unreal  to  yourself, 

^  Miscellany,  page  357.  ^  Revelation  xxi.,  i. 

i  Science  and  Health,  page  192. 

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and  by  following  the  example  of  Christ  Jesus, 
which  Mrs.  Eddy  explains  in  the  following 
words, '  'Jesus  beheld  in  Science  the  perfect  man, 
who  appeared  to  him  where  sinning  mortal  man 
appears  to  mortals."^ 

You  have  laid  all  on  the  altar  of  duty  and 
loving  obedience  to  a  sacred  charge,  with  which 
your  Leader  and  Teacher,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
entrusted  you,  when  she  placed  you  over  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City, 
and  bade  you  feed  her  sheep.  A  ''remnant  of 
her  seed,"^  is  awaiting  her  reappearance,  the 
second  coming  of  Christ,  the  compound  idea, 
man. 

You  have  indeed  staged  important  events  in 
time's  history.  You  have  been  a  scribe  of 
Spirit,  and  your  writings  may  well  be  entitled, 
"The  Acts  and  Experiences  of  the  Apostles"  of 
this  age.  We  have  been  helped  to  work  our 
spiritual  problems  through  the  records  which 

^  Science  and  Health,  pages  476,  477. 
=  Revelation  xii.,  17. 

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the  Apostles  of  Christ  Jesus  have  given  us  in 
their  writings.  Their  records  of  the  betrayal  of 
Jesus  by  Judas  and  the  denial  of  Christ  by  his 
disciple  Peter,  together  with  the  experiences 
and  deflections  of  others,  as  they  strove  to  follow 
their  Master,  have  proved  waymarks  in  our 
emergence  out  of  the  material  into  the  spiritual 
sense,  and  the  record  of  the  deflection  of  some  of 
your  students  will  be  a  warning  signal  for  the 
future  students  of  Christian  Science. 

The  record  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  experiences  with 
those  who  began  to  walk  with  her  towards  the 
goal  of  immortality,  have  proved  guide  posts  for 
all  Christian  Scientists  who  have  entered  the 
race.  You  have  recorded,  for  those  who  in  the 
future  may  enHst  "to  lessen  evil,  disease,  and 
death,"'  as  taught  in  Chistian  Science,  the  pit- 
falls and  danger  chasms  into  which  many  of 
your  students  have  fallen  in  the  past.  Paul 
refers  to  this  in  the  following  words,  'Tor  this 
cause  many  are  weak  and  sickly  among  you, 

» Science  and  Health,  page  450. 
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and  many  sleep."'  The  tireless  watcher  in 
Christian  Science  continues  with  Christ  and 
will  win  the  prize — a  ''wholly  spiritual"^  con- 
sciousness. 

The  intrepid  soldiers  of  Christ,  the  characters 
in  the  early  part  of  this  drama,  who  played 
an  active  part  and  stood  shoulder  to  shoul- 
der with  you,  have  accomplished  the  defence  of 
genuine  Christian  Science,  which  can  never  be 
lost. 

A  scene  at  Mrs.  Eddy's  home  in  Concord  I 
often  recall.  At  a  large  gathering,  you,  with 
your  students,  entered  Pleasant  View  at  the 
lower  gate,  a  type  of  humility.  Your  demon- 
stration, however,  brought  you  and  your  stu- 
dents out  at  the  front  gate.  I  also  recall  a 
significant  episode  that  marked  that  momentous 
occasion.  Mrs.  Eddy  was  asked  if  it  did  not 
make  her  very  happy  to  see  people  from  all  over 
the  world  come  to  pay  her  homage  in  appreci- 
ation of  the  great  truth  she  had  given  to  the 

^  I  Corinthians  xi.,  30.  ^  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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world.  Our  beloved  Leader  replied,  * '  I  will  be 
glad  to  have  07ie  follow  in  my  footsteps  to  the 
end — the  demonstration  of  eternal  Life." 

Mrs.  Eddy  will  demonstrate,  as  Christ  Jesus 
demonstrated,  that  man  was,  is,  and  ever  will 
be  eternal,  immortal,  an  ever-present  idea  of 
God.  Christ,  the  reflector  of  our  Father- 
Mother  God,  as  compound  idea,  is  imminent. 

The  present  chaos  and  confusion  of  the 
material  universe  indicates  the  impending 
destruction  of  mortal  so-called  man  and  a 
material  universe,  and  the  revelation  of  the 
spiritual  man  and  spiritual  universe.  St.  John 
the  Revelator  beheld  the  "new  heaven  "  and  the 
"new  earth,"  the  spiritual  man  and  the  spiritual 
universe,  which  was,  is,  and  ever  will  be  the  only 
God  and  His  infinite  ideas. 

The  spiritual  dynamics  of  scientific  thought  is 
the  voice  of  Christ.  Mrs.  Eddy  graphically 
portrays  this  in  the  following  words : 

The  "still,   small  voice"   of  scientific  thought 
reaches  over  continent  and  ocean  to  the  globe's 

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remotest  bound.  The  inaudible  voice  of  Truth 
is,  to  the  human  mind,  "as  when  a  Hon  roareth." 
It  is  heard  in  the  desert  and  in  dark  places  of  fear. 
It  arouses  the  "seven  thunders"  of  evil,  and  stirs 
their  latent  forces  to  utter  the  full  diapason  of 
secret  tones.  Then  is  the  power  of  Truth  demon- 
strated,— made  manifest  in  the  destruction  of 
error  {Science  and  Health,  p.  559). 

This  will  be  the  dissolving  and  vanishing  of 
all  so-called  mortal  thoughts  and  their  pheno- 
mena, which  compose  the  material  universe. 
The  present  condition  of  the  so-called  material 
world  precedes  the  advent  of  Christ's  second 
and  final  appearance,  when  he  will  assume, 
maintain,  and  fulfil  the  prophecy  of  Isaiah: 

The  government  shall  be  upon  his  shoulder: 
and  his  name  shall  be  called  Wonderful,  Coun- 
sellor, The  mighty  God,  The  everlasting  Father, 
The  Prince  of  Peace  (Isaiah  ix.,  6). 

I  am  grateful  that  the  celestial  melodies, 
which   you   and  your    church    choir    sang   at 
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that  gathering  in  her  home  in  Concord, 
with  Mrs.  Eddy  at  your  side,  are  still  ring- 
ing out,  gladdening  the  pathway  of  the 
heavenly  home-seeker  and  giving  spiritual 
impetus  to  the  redeemed,  who  are  rising  in 
resplendent  glory  to  the  summit  of  divine 
Love. 

The  great  chorus  of  your  Oratorio  Society,  of 
over  three  hundred  voices,  is  chanting : 

Now  is  come  salvation,  and  strength,  and  the 
kingdom  of  our  God,  and  the  power  of  His  Christ : 
for  the  accuser  of  our  brethren  is  cast  down 
(Revelation  xii.,  lo). 

Babylon  the  great  is  fallen,  is  fallen,  .  .  . 
Come  out  of  her,  my  people,  that  ye  be  not 
partakers  of  her  sins,  and  that  ye  receive  not  of 
her  plagues  (Revelation  xviii.,  2,  4). 

My  heart  rejoices,  when,  at  every  rehearsal, 
you  conclude  our  evenings  of  sacred  song,  with 
our  beloved  Leader's  approval,  in  the  following 
words: 

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la  Wvibutt  of  Hotje 

Extempore  ^ 
January  i,  1910 


O  blessings  infinite ! 

O  glad  New  Year ! 
Sweet  sign  and  substance 

Of  God's  presence  here. 

II 

Give  us  not  only  angels'  songs, 
But  Science  vast,  to  which  belongs 

The  tongue  of  angels 
And  the  song  of  songs. 

Mary  Baker  Eddy. 


With  divine  love, 

Your  faithful  student, 


X^^^^^^^^ — 


Miscellany,  page  354. 


9  East  39  Street, 
New  York  City. 

September  26,  1919. 

My  beloved  teacher: — 

As  I  sit  here  alone,  reading  and  communing 
with  God,  there  comes  to  me  a  clearer  vision 
than  I  ever  before  have  had — an  apprehension 
of  God  and  the  spiritual  universe,  under  spirit- 
ual law — and  in  deep  and  prayerful  thought,  I 
see  my  line  of  spiritual  lineage, — Jesus  the 
Christ  representing  the  Fatherhood  of  God; 
Mary  Baker  Eddy  representing  the  Mother- 
hood of  God,  and  her  first-born  student, 
Augusta  E.  Stetson,  born  of  spiritual  conception. 
Augusta  E.  Stetson  is  Mrs.  Eddy's  demon- 
strator of  genuine  Christian  Science.  I  see 
myself,  one  of  the  children,  or  students,  of 
Mrs.  Eddy's  demonstrator  of  divine  love  over 
hate  and  envy,  the  ''enemy  of  good."^ 

'Miscellany,  page  358. 


a  tlribute  of  Hobe 

To  be  born  again  means  the  understanding 
and  realization  that  ' '  man  is  not  material ;  he  is 
spiritual."^  This  truth  is  the  basis  of  demon- 
stration, and  the  spiritual  foundation,  which 
the  so-called  followers  of  Christ  lost,  until  the 
second  coming  of  Christ  through  our  beloved 
Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  brought  to  sinning,  suffer- 
ing humanity  the  vision  of  the  Christ  man. 
"Where  there  is  no  vision  [spiritual  sense],  the 
people  perish."^ 

The  dream  universe  is  represented  by  one 
so-called  mortal  mind,  the  claim  of  evil,  or  the 
belief  of  life  in  matter;  the  spiritual  universe  of 
God's  creating  is  represented  in  the  one  Mind, 
God,  good — the  reflection  being  generic  man, 
the  Christ  man.  Truth  assures  us  that  the 
so-called  material  universe,  made  up  of  the 
dream  and  dreamers,  is  no  thing,  it  has  no 
intelligence  and  no  life. 

So  here  I  sit  declaring  that  my  life  is  in  God^ 
Mind,  Principle,  Love,  and  this  real  reflection, 

^Science  and  Health, -^dige  468.  '  Proverbs  xxix.,  18. 

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a  Kvibntt  of  Hobe 

my  divine  individuality,  is  most  important  to 
God,  as  one  of  His  ideas,  which  compose  His 
body  or  universe.  Therefore  I  must  honor  my 
creator  by  reflecting,  voicing,  His  power  and 
presence.  Christ  Jesus  understood  his  relation 
to  God  and  his  duty  to  his  creator  when  he 
declared : 

The  Son  can  do  nothing  of  himself,  but  what 
he  seeth  the  Father  do :  for  what  things  soever 
He  doeth,  these  also  doeth  the  Son  likewise 
(John  v.,  19). 

Christ  Jesus  understood  that  He  and  the 
Father  were  one,  as  Father  and  Son.  Our  re- 
vered Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  heard  the 
voice  of  God  and  grasped  the  truth  of  Christ's 
teachings,  which  she  has  given  to  the  world,  re- 
veaHng  the  spiritual  fact  that  God  is  the  only 
creator  and  that  we  are  the  sons  and  daughters 
of  a  loving  Father- Mother — eternal  Mind. 

A  seeming  material  personality,  born  of  the 
flesh,  dreams  that  he  is  a  real  being,  until 
II  161 


ai  tlCribute  of  ILobt 

the  revelation  of  God  comes  and  the  dream 
and  dreamer  disappear.  Then  the  real  man 
appears,  born  of  Spirit,  free  born.  This  is 
gaining  the  spiritual  'Vision"  —  the  under- 
standing that  ''man  is  not  material;  he  is 
spiritual." 

It  is  true,  that  throughout  the  ages  and  up 
to  the  present  time,  where  there  is  no  spiritual 
"vision,  the  people  perish."  I  am  awake  to 
this  spiritual  fact  and  I  know  at  this  moment, 
as  I  rise  to  spiritual  "vision,"  viz.,  that  the 
holding  to  and  the  enlarging  of  this  spiritual 
"vision" — the  truth  of  being,  is  the  only  thing 
that  concerns  a  genuine  Christian  Scientist — is 
the  only  way  to  reach  the  demonstration  of 
spiritual  power,  which  destroys  the  material 
dream  and  dreamers,  the  so-called  material  man 
and  material  universe  and  reveals  a  spiritual 
universe,  peopled  with  God's  perfect  ideas,  or 
children.  Let  me  repeat  what  our  revered 
Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  says  on  page  208  of  Mis- 
cellaneous Writings: 

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^  Wxibutt  of  ILobt 

This  is  the  law  of  Truth  to  error,  *'Thou  shalt 
surely  die. ' '  This  law  is  a  divine  energy.  Mortals 
cannot  prevent  the  fulfilment  of  this  law;  it 
covers  all  sin  and  its  effects. 

I  know  that  I  am  just  as  important  to  my 
revered  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  to  my 
teacher,  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  to  promulgate 
Truth,  the  Science  of  being,  in  this  age,  as  were 
any  of  the  faithful  followers  of  Jesus  the  Christ 
two  thousand  years  ago,  to  chronicle  the  power 
of  man,  when  governed  by  God.  ''One  with 
God  is  a  majority."  Those  faithful  disciples, 
particularly  John  the  beloved  disciple,  kept 
near  to  Christ  Jesus.  They  had  the  spiritual 
illumination — the  understanding  and  convic- 
tion which  gave  them  the  ''vision"  and  they 
knew  what  he  meant,  when  he  told  them  that 
he  was  the  ' '  Son  of  God. ' '  Their  spiritual  sight 
glimpsed  the  real  man — the  Christ. 

Sometimes  they  followed  blindly,  sometimes 
they  had  great  light,  but  they  followed.  The  life 
link  was  not  lost.  They  made  spiritual  history 
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a  Zxibnit  of  Hobe 

for  us.  Those  who  began  to  follow  Christ, 
but  had  not  sufficient  oil,  consecration,  to  keep 
the  spiritual  ''vision  "  and  turn  up  the  wick  with 
full  assurance  of  the  affluence  of  oil  (spiritual 
power) ,  perished.  They  went  back  to  the  beliefs 
of  so-called  matter,  as  possessing  life  and  intelli- 
gence and  that  Christ  was  both  a  human  and 
divine  personality. 

Some  very  likely  then,  as  now,  felt  that  they 
knew  as  much,  or  more  of  God,  than  he.  Such 
materialists  lost  the  'Vision" — and  perished. 
They  returned  to  material  beliefs  and  their 
knowledge  of  the  letter  alone  of  Christian 
Science  resulted  then,  as  now  it  results,  in 
"moral  idiocy."^  In  the  belief -world  so-called 
mortal  man,  or  the  belief-man,  must  be  on  the 
gold  field  with  his  pickaxe  to  get  the  gold,  which 
the  seeming  dragon  demands  in  exchange  for 
the  food  and  clothing  without  which  so-called 
mortals  perish. 

So  in  God's  universe,  at  this  hour,  those  who 

^Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  112. 
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a  tirffiute  of  Hobe 

stand  for  absolute  Christian  Science  are  on 
the  field  of  spiritual  activity  and  are  doing  the 
highest  work  with  the  pickaxe  of  Truth — the 
knowledge  of  God  and  His  idea,  spiritual  man. 
Our  beloved  Leader  has  called  you  her  "battle- 
axe."  You  have  indeed  hewn  "the  tall  oak 
and  .  .  .  cut  the  rough  granite."^ 

The  body  of  workers  in  spiritual  demon- 
stration sing  the  song  of  the  redeemed  and 
are  the  light  of  the  world.  As  I  sit  here,  I 
know — God  tells  me — and  God's  interpreter, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  tells  me,  and  you,  my 
teacher,  the  "highest  visible  idea"''  of  this  hour 
have  told  me,  that  the  proof  of  redemption  is  to 
leave  all  for  Christ.  Our  Leader  says,  "We  are 
not  Christian  Scientists  until  we  leave  all  for 
Christ," 3  all  belief  of  both  a  human  and  a  divine 
man.     There  is  but  one — spiritual  man. 

Without  this  relinquishment  of  the  human 

*  Science  and  Health,  Preface  vii. 
"  Science  and  Health,  page  560. 
3  Science  and  Health,  page  192. 

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a  tBxibntt  of  Hobe 

and  the  apprehension  that  man  is  spiritual, 
no  one  gains  "the  brightness  of  joy."  One  is 
called  to  leave  one  idol,  mortal  imagery,  and 
one  another  and  we  must  demonstrate  each 
hour,  each  day,  life  and  love.  Our  Leader, 
Mrs.  Eddy,  says,  "Good  demands  of  man  every 
hour,  in  which  to  work  out  the  problem  of 
being.  "^  And  so  this  morning,  I  feel  that  I 
must  come  out  of  Babylon,  the  belief  that  /  am 
or  that  any  one  is  both  human  and  divine,  both 
material  and  spiritual,  having  a  human  and 
divine  image  and  a  material  and  spiritual  origin. 
Thus  coming  out  of  Babylon — belief  of  material 
birth — we  will  not  be  "partakers  of  her  sins," 
nor  receive  "of  her  plagues."^ 

1  perceive  that  my  "Babylon,"  at  this  hour  of 
my  growth,  is  the  parental  home  and  the  belief 
of  a  material  mother,  to  which  I  have  clung 
tenaciously  and  idolatrously,  until  illumined 
by  spiritual  sense  to  behold  her  as  God's  perfect 

^  Science  and  Health,  pages  261,  262. 

2  Revelation  xviii.,  4. 

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idea,  not  in  the  flesh,  not  in  the  false  ''image." 
I  now  see  her  divine  reaHty  and  this  will  help  to 
free  her  from  her  false  sense  of  me.  I  must 
come  out  from  that  belief  of  life  in  matter 
and  understand  my  spiritual  lineage.  Jesus 
asked: 

Who  is  my  mother?  and  who  are  my 
brethren?  .    .    . 

Whosoever  shall  do  the  will  of  my  Father 
which  is  in  heaven,  the  same  is  my  brother,  and 
sister,  and  mother  (Matthew  xii.,  48,  50). 

Jesus  acknowledged  but  one  Father  and 
Mother  and  all  as  God's  children.  Therefore  I 
must  work  with  the  first-born  demonstrator  of 
absolute  Christian  Science,  and  with  those  who 
are  building  with  her  on  ''a  wholly  spiritual 
foundation."' 

One  may  have  the  rebirth — the  spiritual 
''vision" — but  our  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  says, 
"Progress  is  born  of  experience."''  Spiritual 
experience    brings    fruit,    demonstration,    and 

'  Miscellany,  page  357.         '  Science  and  Health,  page  296. 

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demonstration  is  gaining  and  using  our  spiritual 
power,  giving  the  proof  that  God  is  infinite  Life 
and  Love  and  the  universe  is  His  infinite 
manifestation. 

It  comes  to  my  thought  now,  that  the  teach- 
ing of  the  first  few  days  in  the  last  class  which 
you,  my  beloved  teacher,  taught,  before  you 
were  asked  by  our  Leader  "to  build"  on  "a 
wholly  spiritual  foundation" — was  much  de- 
voted to  the  subject  of  choice,  "Choose  ye, 
choose  ye." 

So  all  along  the  way,  from  the  kindergarten 
to  the  Euclid  of  spiritual  understanding,  it  is 
ever,  "Choose  ye,  choose  ye."  Now  that  we 
know  that  the  lie  and  the  liars,  "Babylon,"  are 
not  real,  it  is  no  longer  choice,  it  is  a  command  to 
"Awake  and  arise"'  and  "come  out  of  her." 
Now  we  see  through  spiritual  "vision,"  that 
Babylon,  the  so-called  material  man  and  a 
material  universe,  never  was  real.  There  is  no 
longer  a  choice.     There  is  a  command  for  every 

^  Miscellany,  page  359. 

168 


^  tribute  of  Hobe 

Christian  Scientist  to  come  out  of  her  and  admit 
but  one  creator,  Life  and  Love,  and  one  creation 
composed  of  spiritual  ideas. 

We  are  in  the  * '  excelsior  extension . "  ^  We  are 
building  ''on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation," 
and  you,  dear  teacher,  to  those  who  have  the 
"vision  "  are  God's  ''highest  visible  idea"  to-day, 
having  demonstrated  the  power  of  Love  over 
fear  and  hate,  which  has  pursued  you  relentlessly 
without  success.  You  are  still  the  faithful 
shepherdess,  leading  your  students  to  whom  you 
have  given  spiritual  birth.  You  are  leading  us 
to  look  for  the  second  coming  of  Christ,  in  mani- 
festation of  the  Fatherhood  and  Motherhood  of 
God — the  compound  idea. 

I  have  come  to  this  moment  when  I  must  be 
radical  with  myself.  I  cannot  believe  in  both  a 
human  and  a  divine  person.  I  know  that  I 
shall  be  guided  by  Principle  and  do  the  work  of  a 
genuine  Christian  Scientist,  which  is  to  destroy 
the  claim  of  sin,  disease,  and  death.     I  shall 

*  Miscellany f  page  6. 

169 


a  tribute  of  Hobe 

find  an  abiding  place.  Truth  and  Love  will 
reveal  it  to  me  and  like  the  Master,  I,  '4f  I  be 
lifted  up,"'  will  draw  to  me  those  who  desire  to 
come  out  of  Babylon,  the  belief  of  material 
birth,  material  generation.  Christian  Scientists 
must  follow  Christ,  as  taught  in  Christian 
Science. 

I  have  laid  my  all  on  the  altar  of  Christ.  I 
have  declared  my  freedom  and  my  spiritual 
dominion.  Henceforth  my  service  to  my  great 
Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  to  her  student, 
my  teacher,  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D.,  will 
be  to  demonstrate  Christ's  teachings  in  the 
destruction  of  the  claim  of  sin  and  the  reform- 
ation of  the  sinner.  My  '  *  vision ' '  clearly  shows 
me  that  material  loss  is  spiritual  gain,  while 
holding  to  the  objects  of  material  sense  is 
spiritual  oblivion. 

With  deep  appreciation  and  gratitude  I 
realize  the  infinite  blessing  of  the  privilege  of  my 
place  in  your  student-body — of  my  seat  in  your 

^  John  xii.,  32. 

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la  Zvibntt  of  Hobe 

Oratorio  Society — of  my  understanding  of 
divine  Love  and  law  and  I  make  my  demands  on 
divine  Love  for  more  wisdom  to  see  and  to  do, 
to  leave  forever  material  beliefs,  as  real,  and 
build  ''on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation." 

I  have  no  doubt  of  spiritual  progress.  I 
know  that  divine  Love  never  fails.  This  I 
know,  that  before  we  have  a  right  to  claim  and 
demonstrate  spiritual  power,  we  must  lay  all 
at  the  foot  of  the  cross.  I  know  also  that  the 
cross  has  become  a  crown  to  me,  because  I  have 
the  "vision,"  the  spirit  of  Christian  Science,  not 
alone  the  cold  letter  that  ''man  is  not  material; 
he  is  spiritual."  I  know  that  there  is  but  one 
universe — the  spiritual — and  that  God,  good, 
is  the  governor  of  infinite  man  and  the  indi- 
vidual members  or  ideas,  which  compose  His 
universe. 

The  Christ  man  and  His  power  has  been 

revealed  at  this,   the  second  coming,   in  our 

beloved    Leader,    Mary,    who    manifests    the 

Motherhood  of  God,  and  her  demonstration  of 

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eternal    Life,    her   faithful   followers    joyfully 
anticipate. 

I  rejoice  that  I  shall  henceforth  ''be  about  my 
Father's    business"^    with    you,    my    faithful 
shepherdess  and  the  sheep  of  your  flock. 
Your  grateful,  loving  student, 


» Luke  ii.,  49. 


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7  West  96  Street, 
New  York  City. 

October  19,  1919. 
My  beloved  teacher:— 

As  you  stand  before  your  students  and  the 
world,  a  demonstrator  of  the  power  of  Love 
over  the  "enemy  of  good,"'  which  has  pursued 
you,  step  by  step,  during  the  twenty-five  years 
since  I  have  been  your  student,  I  am  moved  to 
write  you  of  the  gratitude  and  love  that  fill 
my  heart  and  which  compel  utterance.  I  have 
been  a  member  of  your  household  for  nearly  ten 
years.  Miss  Sibyl  M.  Huse  and  Miss  Mary 
Pinney  have  been  members  of  your  home  four- 
teen years,  or  since  you  built  and  occupied  your 
house — 7  West  96  Street.  We  have  seen  your 
continued  efforts  to  follow  Christ  Jesus'  and 
Mary  Baker  Eddy's    teachings    and  example 

« Miscellany y  page  358. 


0  2Cril)ute  of  Hobe 

and  your  willingness  to  drink  of  their  **cup" 
and  to  be  baptized  with  their  baptism. 

We  have  witnessed  your  scientific  demon- 
stration of  Christian  Science  in  the  building  of 
your  church,  and  your  home,  which  adjoins  it, 
and  of  seeing  your  wonderful  executive  ability 
in  all  your  work  for  the  Cause  of  Christian 
Science,  including  the  healing  of  sin  and  disease. 
Mrs.  Eddy  says  in  Miscellaneous  Writings, 
page  183: 

Man  is  God's  image  and  likeness;  whatever 
is  possible  to  God,  is  possible  to  man  as  God's 
reflection. 

You  continue  to  draw,  as  in  the  past,  the 
heavenly  homesick  to  seek  refuge  and  learn  of 
Christian  Science  in  the  church  edifice,  which 
your  unselfed  love  and  reflection  of  the  eternal 
Mind  has  built.  As  your  spiritual  influence 
increases  and  as  you  rise  to  greater  demon- 
stration of  the  Mind  of  Christ,  you  will  gather 
all  who  are  ready  to  build  "  on  a  wholly  spiritual 
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la  ^tribute  of  Hobe 

foundation,"    into    the     Church    Triumphant 
where    ''Spirit  is  infinite;   therefore   Spirit  is 

As  you  have  risen  with  your  Leader, 
Mrs.  Eddy,  you  have  proved  her  words, ' '  Divine 
Love  always  has  met  and  always  will  meet  every 
human  need. ' '  ^  Dear  teacher,  to-day  you  stand 
before  the  world  a  demonstrator  of  Christ's 
teachings  and  an  honor  to  our  great  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy.  Your  home  is  another 
proof  of  your  spiritual  possibilities  and  activities. 
This  home  is  always  under  your  personal  super- 
vision and  is  perfect  in  all  its  appointments — a 
model  home  of  neatness,  meekness,  and  order, 
harmony  and  beauty,  which  all  your  students 
should  strive  to  demonstrate  in  their  environ- 
ment. Mrs.  Eddy  enjoined  "divine  economy." 
You  have  followed  her  example.  Love  governs 
all  in  your  home  and  extends  to  domestic 
service,  some  having  been  with  you  nearly 
eleven  years.  I  speak  particularly  of  this  as 
*  Miscellany,  page  357.         » Science  and  Health,  page  494. 


0  ^tribute  of  Hotie 

a  scientific  demonstration,  which  reaches  every 
minutia  of  human  Hfe. 

The  chaos  and  confusion  which  seem  to  pre- 
vail in  the  business,  poHtical,  social,  and 
domestic  experiences,  should  be  and  can  be 
healed,  by  the  true  demonstrators  of  Christian 
Science.  But  oh !  how  few,  who  entered  in  the 
past,  or  are  entering  at  the  present  moment,  to 
follow ' '  the  way ' '  according  to  Christian  Science, 
which  Christ  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy  trav- 
elled, are  ready  to  drink  of  their  "cup"  and  be 
baptized  with  their  baptism !     Mrs.  Eddy  says : 

Again,  foreseeing  the  persecution  which  would 
attend  the  Science  of  Spirit,  Jesus  said:  "They 
shall  put  you  out  of  the  synagogues;  yea,  the 
time  cometh,  that  whosoever  killeth  you  will 
think  that  he  doeth  God  service ;  and  these  things 
will  they  do  unto  you,  because  they  have  not 
known  the  Father  nor  me"  {Science  and  Health, 
pp.  31,  32). 

This  has  been  partly  fulfilled  in  your  experi- 
ence, except  that  error  could  not  "kill"  you, 
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because  you  were  and  continue  to  be  enveloped 
in  the  invulnerable  armor  of  Love. 

I  thank  God  on  bended  mental  knee,  that  I 
have  been  able  to  stand  against  the  arguments 
of  your  persecutors,  just  as  you  have  bravely 
stood  against  the  persecutors  and  calumniators 
of  your  Teacher  and  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 
She  dared  to  stand  for  the  teachings  of  Christ 
Jesus,  well  knowing  that  she  must  meet  what  he 
encountered  in  his  efforts  to  overcome  evil — 
hate — lust — avarice,  and  so-called  human  will, 
with  the  law  of  eternal  Life,  God,  which  he 
came  to  demonstrate  and  which  he  proved  to  be 
all  powerful  in  his  victory  over  the  claim  of 
death  and  the  grave.  At  his  second  appearing, 
which  is  near,  he  will  make  an  end  of  the 
material  world  with  its  fleshly  illusions — the 
phenomena  of  the  claim  of  evil,  which  have  so 
long  defied  God  and  His  Christ. 

We  all  know  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  experience  and 
that  you  have  followed  her  teachings,  regardless 
of  the  sting  of  ''the  poison  of  asps  [which]  is 
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under  their  lips"' — the  lips  of  all  who  sought 
to  take  your  life,  or,  having  failed  in  that,  have 
endeavored  to  destroy  your  spiritual  influence 
and  power  over  the  claim  of  evil. 

You  have  indeed  been  a  Joseph.  Already 
the  famished  are  crying  out  for  "bread"  (sub- 
stance)— for  spiritual  understanding,  which 
Cometh  down  from  heaven — which  feeds  and 
clothes  every  child  or  idea  of  God.  You  are 
able  to  supply  their  need,  or  reflect  to  them  the 
**corn"  from  your  abundant  store  of  spiritual 
substance. 

I  remember  reading  an  article,  in  one  of  the 
daily  newspapers,  at  the  time  you  were  dropped 
from  membership  in  The  Mother  Church.  It 
was  from  the  pen  of  Dr.  Parkhurst.  He  said,  in 
substance.  If  these  men,  who  declared  that  you 
were  not  worthy  to  continue  in  fellowship  with 
them  and  denounced  your  teaching  as  "pre- 
tended Christian  Science" — that  if  these  per- 
sons believed  in  their  doctrine,  that  love  heals 

» Romans  iii.,  13;  Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  368. 

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a  Ztibnit  of  ILobe 

all  sin  and  its  effects,  why  did  they  not,  at  once, 
turn  the  thought  of  all  the  Christian  Scientists 
in  the  world,  towards  healing  you?  He 
declared,  that  their  treatment  of  you  contra- 
dicted their  profession  as  followers  of  Christ 
or  of  Mrs.  Eddy. 

I  recently  heard  a  gentleman  give  an  account 
of  his  experience  in  a  Christian  Science  Reading 
Room,  where  he  went  to  purchase  a  copy  of 
Science  and  Health.  The  lady  in  charge  asked 
if  he  were  a  Christian  Scientist.  He  replied, 
"I  am  trying  to  demonstrate  Truth  and  Love, 
according  to  Mrs.  Eddy's  instruction."  She 
inquired  further,  as  to  his  experience  and  when 
she  learned  that  he  was  a  student  of  yours,  said, 
"You  are  in  great  danger.  Do  you  not  know 
that  Mrs.  Stetson  is  all  wrong  and  that  the 
entire  field  of  Christian  Scientists  have  been 
warned  against  her  for  years?"  He  replied 
that  he  had  heard  all  this  while  he  was  in  the 
material  organization  and  that  was  why  he  left 
it  and  went  to  Mrs.  Stetson  to  ascertain  the 
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a  tiribute  of  Hobe 

facts  for  himself,  as  he  felt  that  his  intelligence 
was  quite  equal  to  that  of  those  who  wanted  to 
judge  for  him.  He  said  that  he  had  questioned, 
while  in  the  material  organization,  whether 
Mrs.  Eddy  had  any  one  who  lived  according  to 
her  teachings  and  that  upon  investigating  for 
himself,  he  had  succeeded  in  his  efforts  and  was 
convinced  that  you  were  a  genuine  Christian 
Scientist  and  that  the  field  of  Christian  Scien- 
tists is  fast  awaking  to  this  fact. 

He  then  asked  the  lady  if  she  believed  in  the 
power  of  thought.  She  replied  that  she  did. 
Then  he  said,  "So  do  I  and  when  I  began  to 
realize  the  truth  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  teachings — the 
power  of  thought — and  that  I  must  admit  and 
reflect  only  the  one  God  thought  as  rea/ and  when 
I  awoke  to  the  fact,  that  I  had  been  associating 
with,  and  treated  by  a  body  of  people,  who  held 
the  evil,  mortal  thought  over  others,  I  quit 
that  class  of  people  and  united  with  those  who 
were  demonstrating  the  power  of  the  one 
thought — love  and  its  fulfilment."  He  said, 
*'I  want  no  greater  proof  of  the  supporting  and 
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la  tCribute  of  Hobe 

protecting  power  of  the  Christ  thought,  than 
the  fact  that  Mrs.  Stetson  continues  to  live 
under  the  bombardment  of  the  thoughts  of  the 
materialists,  or  mortals,  and  has  never  appealed 
to  Caesar — a  so-called  material  law — to  defend 
her." 

I  am  writing  this  to  you,  dear  teacher,  in 
letter  form,  because  I  want  to  assure  you,  in 
writing,  to  which  you  can  refer,  if  at  any  time 
you  want  an  assurance  of  my  fidelity  to  Prin- 
ciple, to  our  revered  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  to 
you,  her  faithful  student.  This  understanding 
of  the  spiritual  facts  of  scientific  being  and  your 
demonstration  of  eternal  Love,  will  keep  me 
''on  upward  wing,"'  until  I  reach  the  summit  of 
spiritual  dominion  over  the  illusion  of  two  pow- 
ers, good  and  evil.  Life  and  death,  and  demon- 
strate my  oneness  with  God  as  His  idea  or  child. 
Lovingly,  faithfully  your  student, 

^  Poems,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  4. 
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Hotel  Colonial, 
New  York  City. 

October  20,  1919. 

Blessed  teacher: — 

May  I  call  your  attention  to  an  incident 
which  stands  out  so  vividly  in  my  mind,  in  con- 
nection with  your  work  in  New  York  City, 
not  only  in  healing  the  sick  and  teaching  the 
Science  of  Life  to  mankind,  but  in  the  demon- 
stration and  the  bringing  forth  of  your  church. 
First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York 
City.  I  say  your  church  because  Mrs.  Eddy, 
in  speaking  of  the  proper  designation  of  her 
Church,  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
Boston,  Mass.,  wrote  a  letter,  March  22,  1903,  to 
the  Christian  Science  Board  of  Directors, — Ira  O. 
Knapp,  William  B.  Johnson,  Joseph  Armstrong, 
and  Stephen  A.  Chase, — enjoining  them  to 
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designate  the  Church  as  Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy's 
Church.  A  facsimile  excerpt  of  her  letter  is 
here  inserted. 

As  Mrs.  Eddy  was  the  demonstrator  of  The 
First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  Boston,  Mass., 
and  designated  the  Church  as  her  Church,  she 
clearly  set  forth,  in  the  foregoing  letter,  that  the 
church  demonstrated  by  you  was  your  church. 
Additional  evidence  showing  that  Mrs.  Eddy 
recognized  the  fact  that  the  church  should 
always  stand  as  the  work  or  demonstration  of 
the  individual  bringing  it  forth,  and  that  such 
individual's  name  should  go  down  in  history 
as  the  demonstrator  of  the  church  edifice, 
Mrs.  Eddy  wrote  the  following  letter,  of  which 
you,  your  Trustees  and  several  of  your  students 
have  a  certified  copy.  The  original  was  brought 
to  you  by  the  owner,  after  you  had  been  re- 
peatedly warned  of  a  conspiracy  on  foot  in 
Boston  to  dispossess  you  of  your  church  and  put 
you  entirely  out  of  the  ranks  of  Christian 
Science. 

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B  Wxibutt  of  Hobe 

Pleasant  View, 
Concord,  N.  H. 

March  23  [1903]. 
My  beloved  Student : 

I  thank  God  for  your  true  sense  of  what  I  say. 
Yes,  be  sure  and  give  my  name  in  all  the  deeds 
not  yet  recorded — as  you  wrote  it  for  the  church 
Viz:  Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy's  Church. 

Then  it  goes  down  the  ages  as  the  church  which 
it  surely  is,  that  of  the  Discoverer  and  Founder 
of  Christian  Science. 

At  some  date  that  fact  will  be  more  to  the 
world  than  aught  else  can  be  apart  from  the  spir- 
itual sense  of  things.     Please  accept  my  thanks. 
With  love 

M  B  Eddy 

The  above  letters  are  your  evidence  and 
authority  for  declaring  that  First  Church  of 
Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City,  is  your  church, 
your  fruit  of  love  and  truth,  your  spiritual  sense 
actively  reflected  in  form,  color,  harmony  and 
beauty,  in  type  and  symbol  until  its  completion. 

I  remember  that  you  took  the  spade  and 
turned  up  the  first  stone,  when  you  dedicated 
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a  tribute  of  Habe 

the  lot  upon  which  the  church  edifice  was  to  be 
built.  I  recall  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone, 
November,  1899,  Thanksgiving  morning,  at 
eight  o'clock.  The  sun  rose  brightly  that  morn- 
ing, typifying  the  uprising,  in  this  City,  of  the 
"Sun  of  righteousness  .  .  .  with  healing  in 
His  wings.  "^  I  remember  so  well  having  in  my 
hands,  and  reading,  the  original  letter,  which 
Mrs.  Eddy  sent  you  to  be  placed  in  the  corner- 
stone of  your  church.  You  read  this  letter  three 
times,  to  those  present  on  that  momentous 
occasion.     The  letter^  reads  as  follows: 

Pleasant  View, 
Concord,  N.  H. 

To  Mrs.  A.  E.  Stetson: 

Beneath  this  corner-stone,  in  this  silent,  sacred 
sanctuary  of  earth's  sweet  songs,  paeans  of  praise 
and  records  of  Omnipotence,  I  leave  my  name 
with  thine  in  unity  and  love. 

Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy. 

November  30th,  1899. 

^Malachi  iv.,  2. 

^Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  facing  pa,ge 34. 

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a  tribute  of  Hobe 

One  day,  when  the  organ  console  was  on  the 
floor  of  the  church  and  between  three  and  four 
hundred  workmen  were  eating  luncheon  in  the 
unfinished  auditorium,  I  saw  a  piece  of  brown 
paper  which  they,  the  men,  sent  to  you,  while 
you  were  trying  the  organ.  On  the  paper,  one 
of  the  men  had  written,  ' '  Madam,  will  you  play 
'  Nearer  My  God  to  Thee'  for  the  boys  ? "  You 
replied,  "I  will,  if  you  will  sing  it  with  me," 
which  they  did. 

I  remember  seeing  you  walk  on  the  scaffold- 
ing, sixty  feet  or  more  above  the  ground,  once 
with  Mr.  Hastings,  the  architect,  as  you  went  in 
and  out  of  the  church,  day  by  day.  I  know  that 
everything  was  under  your  personal  supervision, 
for  your  Trustees  were  aware  that  you,  with  your 
Leader  and  Teacher,  Mrs.  Eddy,  were  building 
this  church  and  they  let  you  assume  the  re- 
sponsibility of  its  architecture,  of  its  symbols, 
and  its  completion,  free  of  debt,  all  of  which 
finally  rewarded  them  for  their  obedience  to 
your  spiritual  guidance,  in  response  to  your 
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a  tlrihute  of  Hobe 

Leader  and  Teacher,  who  placed  her  name  with 
yours  in  "unity  and  love." 

During  the  great  financial  crisis,  which  oc- 
curred about  the  time  you  started  the  building 
of  your  church,  there  was  much  distress.  Yet, 
through  your  faith  and  understanding  of  God, 
as  the  ever-present  creative  Principle,  source, 
support  and  supply,  the  money  necessary  to 
meet  every  demand  never  failed  to  come  in 
when  it  was  needed. 

I  recall  the  time  when  you  asked  your 
Trustees  if  they  would  let  the  workmen  see  the 
consummation  of  their  combined  talents  and 
efforts  in  producing  such  results  in  this  magni- 
ficent edifice.  You  desired  to  show  your  grati- 
tude to  these  men  who  had  served  so  faithfully 
and  satisfactorily.  The  Trustees  agreed,  and 
one  Sunday  afternoon  was  given  to  the  men. 
Word  was  sent  by  the  architects,  Carrere  and 
Hastings,  to  the  foreman  of  each  branch  of  art, 
inviting  the  men  and  their  families  to  this 
meeting. 

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ai  ^tribute  of  Hobe 

The  auditorium  of  the  church  was  filled  and 
they  all  united  with  us,  in  singing,  ''Nearer  My 
God  to  Thee"  and  "Praise  God  from  whom  all 
blessings  flow."  The  reading  of  the  Bible  and 
Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,  by 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  together  with  the  repetition 
of  the  Lord's  Prayer,  were  listened  to  with  much 
reverence.  Then  you  made  an  Address  of  deep 
appreciation  to  the  men  for  their  services  to  you, 
to  your  Trustees,  your  students  and  church 
members,  for  only  these  contributed  to  the  erec- 
tion of  the  edifice.  During  the  Address  you 
invited  the  men  to  go  through  the  entire  build- 
ing and  see  the  result  of  the  faithful  work  their 
hands  had  wrought.  Thus  you  demonstrated 
divine  democracy — love  for  God  and  man,  as 
His  sons  and  daughters — the  ideal  man. 

When  our  revered  Leader  requested  her  ''dear 
brethren  in  New  York"'  to  begin  to  build  "on 
a  wholly  spiritual  foundation,"'  you  responded, 
together  with  those  of  your  students  who  were 

^  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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ready  to  enter  the  race  for  immortality.  You 
have  met  every  test,  every  argument,  every 
poison  dart  of  the  "mental  assassin"^  with 
divine  Love.  You  have  fulfilled  the  law  of 
Love,  or  you  could  not  have  demonstrated  as 
you  have — health — wholeness — nor  could  you 
have  stood  against  such  opposition  from  the 
materially  minded  and  proved  the  spiritual 
teachings  of  Christian  Science,  "as  taught  by'" 
Mary  Baker  Eddy.  You  have  won  a  great 
victory  over  "the  enemy  of  good,"  therefore 
your  Leader's  request  in  Miscellany,  page  358, 
is  literally  fulfilled: 

Beloved!  you  need  to  watch  and  pray  that  the 
enemy  of  good  cannot  separate  you  from  your 
Leader  and  best  earthly  friend. 

At  her  request  you  have  never  been  sepa- 
rated from  your  Leader's  spiritual  individuality, 
but  you  have  ever  been  obedient  to  her  divine 
leading  anci  have  defended  the  spiritual  animus 

I  Science  and  Health,  page  419. 
a  See  Will  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

190 


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Concord.  NR^/^^^T^-^^ 


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a  tribute  of  Hobe 

of  her  teaching.  In  thus  doing  you  have  helped 
her  to  ''estabHsh  the  Christianity  of  Christian 
Science"'  and  have  fulfilled  the  mission  with 
which  Mrs.  Eddy  entrusted  you  when  she  sent 
you  to  New  York  City  in  1886. 

I  esteem  it  a  great  privilege  to  have  been  a 
member  of  your  household  for  three  and  a  half 
years,  and  one  of  the  twenty-five  practitioners,  * 
appointed  by  your  Board  of  Trustees,  to  be  in 
daily  attendance  at  the  Reading  Rooms  of  your 
church,  when  Mrs.  Eddy  sent  the  letter  ad- 
dressed to  "Mrs.  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D. 
and  the  practitioners  in  the  R.R.  of  her  church. 
N.Y.N.Y."  in  which  she  wrote,  "Your  love  re- 
flects the  divine  Love  which  heals  the  sick,  con- 
quers sin  and  the  sinner."  K  facsimile  of  the 
letter  in  full  is  here  inserted : 

^Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  page  14. 

a  At  the  investigation,  in  1909,  of  your  work  as  a  teacher 
and  practitioner  of  Christian  Science,  by  the  Christian 
Science  Board  of  directors,  Boston,  Mass.,  nineteen 
of  these  twenty-five  practitioners  stood  for  the  correct- 
ness of  your  teaching  and  practice. 
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a  ^vibntt  of  Hebe 

When  the  By-Law  regarding  "Teachers'  and 
Practitioners'  Offices"'  came  out,  your  teaching 
and  example  of  instant  obedience  was  evidenced 
in  the  fact  that,  the  very  day  the  notice  ap- 
peared in  the  Christian  Science  Sentinel,  not 
another  patient  was  treated  in  the  church  build- 
ing and  in  less  than  two  days  all  office  furniture 
was  removed  from  the  building.  This  proved 
later  to  be  the  beginning  of  our  coming  out  of 
material  organization. 

It  is  over  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  since 
I  went  through  a  class  in  Christian  Science, 
taught  by  you,  dear  teacher,  and  I  feel  moved 
to  write  you  to-day,  and  recall  to  your  mind  some 
of  the  mile-stones  along  the  way  during  my 
association  with  you  and  your  work  in  New 
York  City.  I  feel  impelled  to  reassure  you  of 
my  deep  affection  and  loyalty  to  our  great 
Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  to  you,  the  demon- 
strator of  absolute  Christian  Science,  and  to 
your  noble  body  of  Christian  Scientists,  who 

^Manual  of  The  Mother  Church,  page  74. 
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^  ^vibntt  of  Hobe 

are  building  ''on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation," 
as  fast  as  they  can  make  the  belief  of  life  in 
matter  imreal. 

So  dear  teacher,  I  send  you  this  letter  which 
but  faintly  expresses  my  love  and  gratitude 
to  you,  for  your  steadfast  adherence  to  Prin- 
ciple and  to  the  teachings  of  Christ  Jesus  and 
Mary  Baker  Eddy.  You  are  a  veritable 
living  "epistle."  In  the  words  of  Saint  Paul, 
II  Corinthians  iii.,  2: 

Ye  are  our  epistle  written  in  our  hearts,  known 
and  read  of  all  men. 

To-day,  throughout  the  world,  the  people  who 
have  spiritual  discernment,  are  declaring  for 
your  sublime  example  and  demonstration  over 
the  material  world,  the  fleshly  mind,  and  the 
claim  of  a  power  opposed  to  God  and  His  Christ. 
Devotedly  and  loyally  your  student, 


^ 


^^^i5€Z4Lii.^^r>-x^ 


13       ^  193 


a  Wxibntt  of  ILobe 

P.S. — Another  instance  comes  to  my  thought 
— the  labor  strikes.  I  well  remember  often  be- 
ing with  you  while  you  talked  with  the  walking 
delegates  and  helped  to  settle  their  difficulties. 
The  opposition  of  the  delegates  to  the  men 
continuing  their  work  on  the  church  was  so 
intense  at  one  time,  that  the  men  feared  to 
leave  the  building  and  you,  with  your  Trustees, 
arranged  for  them  to  remain  in  the  church 
building  over  night  and  you  saw  that  they  were 
provided  with  supper  and  breakfast.  They 
were  also  provided  with  sleeping  accommoda- 
tions by  supplying  them  with  the  cushions 
which  had  been  taken  from  the  Forty-eighth 
Street  church  and  stored  in  the  basement  of  the 
new  building.     The  next  morning  the  strike  was 

settled. 

Mary. 


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7  West  96  Street, 
New  York  City. 

September  30,  1919. 
My  beloved  teacher: — 

I  am  sending  you  some  Bible  references  and 
some  quotations  from  our  revered  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  which  endorse  your  author- 
ity for  the  worship  of  God  in  music. 

The  redeemed  are  they  who  are  coming  "with 
songs  and  everlasting  joy  upon  their  heads."' 
Wisdom  guided  you,  when  you  called  to  you  all 
who  were  willing  to  begin  * '  to  build  .  .  .  on  a 
wholly  spiritual  foundation,"^  in  response  to 
our  Leader's  request.  From  your  many  stu- 
dents came  those  whose  spiritual  attainments 
and  knowledge  of  music  placed  them  among 
"the  sweet  singers  of  Israel,"  The  Oratorio 
Society  of  your  Institute.^ 

I  Isaiah  xxxv.,  lo.  =*  Miscellany,  page  357. 

3  New  York  City  Christian  Science  Institute,  incorporated 
July,  1 89 1. 

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a  tribute  of  Hobe 

God  utters  His  voice  through  man,  His  Word, 
in  song  and  sermon.  The  might  and  power  of 
Mind,  Spirit,  as  voiced  through  the  consecrated 
members  of  your  Oratorio  Society,  reach  to 
earth's  remotest  bounds  and  confirm  the  Scrip- 
ture, "He  uttered  His  voice,  the  earth  melted."^ 

It  is  evident  that  Christ,  Truth,  is  dissolving 
the  material  elements,  called  material  man, 
material  organization,  material  music,  and  a 
material  universe.  So-called  mortals  express, 
in  music,  the  qualities  of  which  the  human  mind 
is  composed — fear,  self-love,  self-will,  self-justi- 
fication, pride,  envy,  jealousy,  hatred,  avarice, 
sensuality.  These  mental  qualities  do  not  pro- 
duce real  music,  harmony,  but  are  the  ''jarring 
elements"^  which  Mrs.  Eddy  refused  to  accept 
as  music.  She  called  for  music  which  proceeds 
from  spiritual  sense — the  only  music  which  she 
describes  in  the  following  words : 

Music  is  the  harmony  of  being;  but  the  music 
of  Soul  affords  the  only  strains  that  thrill  the 
^  Psalm  xlvi. ,  6.  *  Message  for  1900,  page  1 1 . 

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chords  of  feeling  and  awaken  the  heart's  harp- 
strings  {Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  io6). 

Spiritual  music  satisfies  spiritual  demands. 
Material  so-called  music  gratifies  the  sensual- 
ist. A  wonderful  spiritual  power  is  recognized 
in  our  Oratorio  music  and  is  awaking,  in  thou- 
sands, "the  heart's  harpstrings"  in  praises  to 
God  and  His  Christ. 

Spiritualization  of  thought  is  revealing  the 
new  man  and  the  spiritual  universe  of  God's 
creating — the  immortal  man  and  the  eternal 
universe,  to  which  there  has  never  been  an 
"accuser"  nor  an  "opposer"  since  the  earth 
was,  is,  and  ever  will  be  God's  earth,  God's 
infinite  manifestation  in  spiritual  man  and  a 
spiritual  universe.  Our  great  Leader  declared 
and  still  continues  to  declare,  "Spirit  is  in- 
finite; therefore  Spirit  is  all.  'There  is  no 
matter.'"^ 

During  twenty-six  years  as  your  student  and 

*  Miscellany f  page  357. 

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a  demonstrator  of  Christian  Science,  as  taught 
by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  for  many  successive 
years  the  organist  of  your  church,  First  Church 
of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City,  I  have 
proved  that  God  is  the  life  of  man  and  that  Life 
is  the  law  of  being.  This  scientific  fact  of  being 
must  finally  be  demonstrated  by  all,  for  God  is 
all  and  in  all  and  through  all  and  there  is  no 
other  power  nor  presence. 

Let  me  repeat  a  verse  from  your  book  of 
Poems,''  written  years  ago  and  dedicated  to 
Mrs.  Eddy: 

Love's  sweet  harvest  home-song 

Vintage  bells  resound; 
God  is  in  His  temple,  ^ 

And  His  own  are  crowned. 

Your  grateful,  faithful,  loving  student, 

^Poems,  published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York. 
^  "  Ye  [man,  spiritual  consciousness]  are  the  temple  of  the 
living  God"  (II  Corinthians  vi.,  i6). 

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QUOTATIONS 

MARY  BAKER  EDDY 

May  those  who  discourse  music  to-day,  sing  as 
the  angels  heaven's  symphonies  that  come  to 
earth. — Miscellany,  p.  155. 

.  .  .  the  seedtime  is  passed,  the  harvest  hour 
has  come;  and  songs  should  ascend  from  the 
mount  of  revelation,  sweeter  than  the  sound  of 
vintage  bells. — Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  356. 

THE  SCRIPTURES 

I  will  sing  a  new  song  unto  Thee,  O  God. — 
Psalm  cxliv.,  9. 

O  let  the  nations  be  glad  and  sing  for  joy. — 
Psalm  Ixvii.,  4. 

The  singers  were  over  the  business  of  the  house 
of  God. 

For  it  was  the  king's  commandment  concerning 
them,  that  a  certain  portion  should  be  for  the 
singers,  due  for  every  day. — Nehemiah  xi.,  22,  23. 

Speaking  to  yourselves  in  psalms  and  hymns 
and  spiritual  songs,  singing  and  making  melody 
in  your  heart  to  the  Lord. — Ephesians  v.,  19. 

Let  the  saints  be  joyful  in  glory:  let  them  sing 
aloud  upon  their  beds. — Psalm  cxlix.,  5. 
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They  that  carried  us  away  captive  required  of 
us  a  song  .  .  .  saying,  Sing  us  one  of  the  songs 
of  Zion. — Psalm  cxxxvii.,  3. 

Then  shall  .  .  .  the  tongue  of  the  dumb  sing. 
— Isaiah  xxxv.,  6. 

They  shall  come  and  sing  in  the  height  of  Zion. 
— Jeremiah  xxxi.,  12. 

I  will  sing  with  the  spirit,  and  I  will  sing  with 
the  understanding  also. — I  Corinthians  xiv.,  15. 

Is  any  among  you  afiQicted?  ...  let  him 
sing  psalms. — James  v.,  13. 

And  they  sung  as  it  were  a  new  song  before  the 
throne  .  .  .  and  no  man  could  learn  that  song 
but  the  hundred  and  forty  and  four  thousand, 
which  were  redeemed  from  the  earth. — Revelation 
xiv.,  3. 

When  David  was  returned  from  the  slaughter 
of  the  Philistine,  .  .  .  the  women  came  out 
of  all  cities  of  Israel,  singing  .  .  .  and  with 
instruments  of  musick. — I  Samuel  xviii.,  6. 

Jehoiada  appointed  the  offices  of  the  house  of 
the  Lord  .    .    .   with  rejoicing  and  with  singing,  as 
it  was  ordained  by  David. — II  Chronicles xxiii. ,  18. 
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The    children  .    .    .  whom    Nebuchadnezzar 

the  king  of   Babylon  had  carried  away  unto 

Babylon,  and  came  again  unto  Jerusalem   .    .    . 

.    .   there  were  among  them  two  hundred 

singing  men  and  singing  women. — Ezra  ii.,  i,  65. 

The  whole  earth  is  at  rest,  and  is  quiet :  they 
break  forth  into  singing.— Isaiah  xiv.,  7. 

The  wilderness  .  .  .  shall  blossom  abun- 
dantly, and  rejoice  even  with  joy  and  singing. — 
Isaiah  xxxv.,  1,2. 

Sing,  0  ye  heavens  .  .  .  break  forth  into 
singing  .  .  .  for  the  Lord  hath  redeemed  .  .  . 
Israel. — Isaiah  xliv.,  23. 

Go  ye  forth  of  Babylon  .  .  .  with  a  voice  of 
singing  declare  ye  .  .  .  the  Lord  hath  re- 
deemed His  servant  Jacob. — Isaiah  xlviii.,  20. 

The  mountains  and  the  hills  shall  break  forth 
before  you  into  singing. — Isaiah  Iv.,  12. 

Sing,  O  daughter  of  Zion  .  .  .  rejoice  with 
all  the  heart,  O  daughter  of  Jerusalem. 

The  Lord  hath  taken  away  thy  judgments 
...  He  will  joy   over  thee  with   singing. — 
Zephaniah  iii.,  14,  15,  I7- 
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MARY   BAKER  EDDY 

Give  us  not  only  angels'  songs, 
But  Science  vast,  to  which  belongs 

The  tongue  of  angels 
And  the  song  of  songs. 

Miscellany,  p.  354. 

To-day  is  fulfilled  the  prophecy  of  Isaiah: 
"And  the  ransomed  of  the  Lord  shall  return,  and 
come  to  Zion  with  songs  and  everlasting  joy  upon 
their  heads:  they  shall  obtain  joy  and  gladness, 
and  sorrow  and  sighing  shall  flee  away." — 
Miscellany,  p.  171. 

To  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
Wilmington,  N.  C. 

.  .  .  God  grant  that  such  great  goodness,  point- 
ing the  path  to  heaven  within  you,  hallow  your 
Palmetto  home  with  palms  of  victory  and  songs 
of  glory. — Miscellany,  p.  176. 

First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

.    .    .   "Fear  not:   ...   I  have  called  thee  by 

thy  name;  thou  art  mine."     Within  its  sacred 

walls  may  song  and  sermon  generate  only  that 

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which  Christianity  writes  in  broad  facts  over 
great  continents — sermons  that  fell  forests  and 
remove  mountains,  songs  of  joy  and  gladness. — 
Miscellany,  pp.  193,  194. 

May  the  sweet  song  of  silver-throated  singers, 
making  melody  more  real,  and  the  organ's  voice 
.  .  .  and  the  Word  spoken  .  .  .  mingle  with 
the  joy  of  angels  and  rehearse  your  hearts'  holy 
intents. — Pulpit  and  Press,  p.  11. 

The  song  of  Christian  Science  is,  "Work — 
work — work — watch  and  prsiy."— Message  for 
igoo,  p.  2. 

Give  us,  dear  God,  again  on  earth  the  lost 
chord  of  Christ ;  solace  us  with  the  song  of  angels 
rejoicing  with  them  that  rejoice. — Message  for 
1901,  p.  34. 

Lift  Thou  a  patient  love  above  earth's  ire, 
Piercing  the  clouds  with  its  triumphal  spire. 

While  sacred  song  and  loudest  breath  of  praise 

Echo  amid  the  hymning  spheres  of  light, — 
With  heaven's  lyres  and  angel's  loving  lays. 

Poems,  p.  30. 

Author  of  all  divine 

Gifts,  lofty,  pure,  and  free, 
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Temperance  and  truth  in  song  sublime 
An  offering  bring  to  Thee ! 

Poems,  p.  39. 

It  may  be  months  or  years 

Since  joyous  spring  was  there. 
O  come  to  clouds  and  tears 

With  light  and  song  and  prayer ! 

Poems,  p.  54. 

For  victory  over  a  single  sin,  we  give  thanks 
and  magnify  the  Lord  of  Hosts.  What  shall  we 
say  of  the  mighty  conquest  over  all  sin?  A 
louder  song,  sweeter  than  has  ever  before  reached 
high  heaven,  now  rises  clearer  and  nearer  to  the 
great  heart  of  Christ ;  for  the  accuser  is  not  there, 
and  Love  sends  forth  her  primal  and  everlasting 
strain. — Science  and  Health,  p.  568. 

Pleasant  View,  Concord,  N.  H. 
To  Mrs.  A.  E.  Stetson:^ 

Beneath  this  corner-stone,  in  this  silent,  sacred 
sanctuary  of  earth's  sweet  songs,  paeans  of  praise 
and  records  of  Omnipotence,  I  leave  my  name 
with  thine  in  unity  and  love. 

Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy. 
November  30th,  1899. 
» Reminiscences,  Sermons, and  Correspondence,  facing  page  34. 

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When  the  hearts  of  Christian  Scientists  are 
woven  together  as  are  their  names  in  the  web  of 
history,  earth  will  float  majestically  heaven's 
heraldry,  and  echo  the  song  of  angels:  ** Glory  to 
God  in  the  highest,  and  on  earth  peace,  good  will 
toward  men." — Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  145. 

"Christ  and  Christmas"  voices  Christian 
Science  through  song  and  object-lesson. — Miscel- 
laneous Writings,  p.  372. 

And  wake  a  white- winged  angel  throng 

Of  thoughts,  illumed 
By  faith,  and  breathed  in  raptured  song, 

With  love  perfumed. 

Poems,  p.  12. 

Syntax  was  spiritual  order  and  unity.  Prosody, 
the  song  of  angels,  and  no  earthly  or  inglorious 
theme. — Retrospection  and  Introspection,  p.  10. 

Wild  spirit  of  song, — midst  the  zephyrs  at  play 
In  bowers  of  beauty, — I  bend  to  thy  lay. 

Retrospection  and  Introspection,  p.  17. 

The  snowbird  sings  and  soars  amid  the  blasts. — 
Science  and  Health,  p.  220. 
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Are  we  filling  the  measures  of  life's  music  aright, 
emphasizing  its  grand  strains,  swelling  the  har- 
mony of  being  with  tones  whence  come  glad 
echoes?  As  crescendo  and  diminuendo  accent 
music,  so  the  varied  strains  of  human  chords 
express  life's  loss  or  gain, — loss  of  the  pleasures 
and  pains  and  pride  of  life:  gain  of  its  sweet 
concord,  the  courage  of  honest  convictions,  and 
final  obedience  to  spiritual  law. — Miscellaneous 
Writings  J  p.  ii6. 

To  discern  the  rhythm  of  Spirit  and  to  be  holy, 
thought  must  be  purely  spiritual. — Science  and 
Health,  p.  510. 

Mozart  experienced  more  than  he  expressed. 
The  rapture  of  his  grandest  symphonies  was 
never  heard.  He  was  a  musician  beyond  what 
the  world  knew.  This  was  even  more  strikingly 
true  of  Beethoven.  .  .  .  Mental  melodies  and 
strains  of  sweetest  music  supersede  conscious 
sound.  Music  is  the  rhythm  of  head  and  heart. 
Mortal  mind  is  the  harp  of  many  strings,  dis- 
coursing either  discord  or  harmony  according 
as  the  hand,  which  sweeps  over  it,  is  human 
or  divine. — Science  and  Health,  p.  213. 
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When  the  good  fight  is  fought,  error  yields  up  its 
weapons  and  kisses  the  feet  of  Love,  while  white- 
winged  peace  sings  to  the  heart  a  song  of  angels. 
— Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  204. 

The  brooklet  sings  melting  murmurs  to  merry- 
meadows;  the  leaves  clap  their  hands,  and  the 
winds  make  melody  through  dark  pine  groves. — 
Miscellaneous  Writings,  pp.  329,  330. 

.  .  .  the  dove  of  peace  sits  smilingly  on  these 
branches  and  sings  of  our  Redeemer. — Miscel- 
lany, p.  192. 

.  .  .  the  law  of  Sinai  lifted  thought  into  the 
song  of  David. — Science  and  Health,  p.  200. 

May  the  towering  top  of  its  goodly  temple — 
burdened  with  beauty,  pointing  to  the  heavens, 
bursting  into  the  rapture  of  song — long  call  the 
worshipper  to  seek  the  haven  of  hope,  the  heaven 
of  Soul,  the  sweet  sense  of  angelic  song. — Miscel- 
lany, pp.  162,  163. 

.  .  .  my  dear  ones,  let  us  together  sing  the  old- 
new  song  of  salvation,  and  let  our  measure  of 
time  and  joy  be  spiritual,  not  material. — Miscel- 
lany, p.  166. 

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Though  neither  dome  nor  turret  tells  the  tale 
of  your  little  church,  its  song  and  sermon  will 
touch  the  heart,  .  .  .  echoing  the  Word  welling 
up  from  the  infinite  and  swelling  the  loud  anthem 
of  one  Father-Mother  God,  o'er  all  victorious ! — 
Miscellany,  p.  i86. 

My  Beloved  Brethren: — Your  Soul-full  words 
and  song  repeat  my  legacies  in  blossom. — Mis- 
cellany, p.  201.  (Mrs.  Eddy's  reply  to  a  letter 
from  Mrs.  Stetson  and  her  Board  of  Trustees, 
November  2,  1899.) 

...  I  still  hear  the  harvest  song  of  the  Re- 
deemer awakening  the  nations,  causing  man  to 
love  his  enemies. — Miscellany,  p.  316. 

God  hath  thrust  in  the  sickle,  and  He  is  sepa- 
rating the  tares  from  the  wheat.  This  hour  is 
molten  in  the  furnace  of  Soul.  Its  harvest  song 
is  world-wide,  world-known,  world-great. — Mis- 
cellany, p.  269. 

Note. — A  similar  list  of  quotations  was  compiled  by- 
Amelia  S.  Rowbotham,  one  of  the  original  practitioners  in 
our  church,  and  read  several  years  ago  at  one  of  the  rehearsals 
of  The  Oratorio  Society  of  the  New  York  City  Christian 
Science  Institute.  Since  we  were  deprived  of  our  church 
edifice,  our  church,  which  is  composed  of  those,  who,  in  re- 
sponse to  Mrs.  Eddy's  request,  began  to  build  "on  a  wholly 

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spiritual  foundation"^  (among  them  Amelia  S.  Rowbotham) 
have  united  on  Sunday  and  Wednesday  evenings  for  the  pur- 
pose of  singing  praises  to  God,  while  waiting  on  Him, 
for  the  restoration  of  all  things  (including  music)  to  "their 
rightful  home  and  classification."* 

^  Miscellany,  page  357. 
'Science  and  Health,  page  124. 


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Note 

The  four  following  letters  are  from  the  Trus- 
tees of  "Mrs.  Stetson's  church,"  First  Church  of 
Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City  {Vital  Issues 
in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  p.  390). 


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The  New  Weston, 
New  York  City. 

October  4,  191 9. 
Dear  teacher: — 

While  the  peoples  of  the  material  world  are 
awarding  well-earned  honors  to  its  military 
heroes,  who  have  defended  the  cause  of  freedom, 
it  is  but  just  to  recognize  the  higher  service  which 
you  have  rendered  at  the  post  of  vigilance,  as  a 
spiritual  teacher  and  guide,  watching  the  trend 
of  thought,  foreseeing  the  conflict  between 
Truth  and  error,  interpreting  the  signs  of  the 
times,  and  pointing  to  the  real  and  enduring, 
amidst  the  unrest  and  confusion  of  temporal 
aims  and  purposes.  During  thirty  years  I  have 
walked  with  you,  as  your  student,  and  co- 
Trustee  of  your  church.  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  New  York  City. 

How  steadfast  and  unswerving  has  been  your 
allegiance  to  our  great  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
and  with  what  courage  you  have  upheld  the 
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standard  of  Christian  Science  in  its  purity  and 
power!  Such  a  consecrated  life  has  a  sublime 
influence,  because  of  its  divine  commission  and 
inspiration. 

To  understand  God,  and  man  as  His  image 
and  likeness,  spiritual  and  not  material,  to 
know  that  all  is  Mind,  and  therefore  there  is  no 
matter,  with  the  comprehension  of  the  grandeur 
and  glory  of  the  one  spiritual  universe  of  infinite 
Light  and  Love,  is  the  need  and  destiny  of  all 
the  world.  In  the  darkness  is  heard  the  call, 
"Watchman,  what  of  the  night?"'  and,  from 
the  outlook  on  the  tower  of  Zion,  your  voice  is 
heard  proclaiming,  "Lo!  the  Prince  of  Peace, 
Lo!  the  Son  of  God  is  come." 

May  you  continue  to  be  abundantly  blessed 
in  blessing  others,  for  ''Love  is  its  own  recom- 
pense, and  exceeding  great  reward." 

Faithfully  and  gratefully  your  student, 


Isaiah  xxi.,  ii. 

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114  Remsen  Street, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

October  15,  1919. 

Mrs.  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D., 
7  West  96  Street, 
New  York  City. 

My  dear  teacher: — 

Too  often  we  let  our  feelings  go  unexpressed, 
but  now  I  want  to  recall,  that  more  than  twenty- 
five  years  ago  I  came  to  you  in  despair  over  my 
bad  health.  You  will  remember  that  in  March, 
1894,  I,  with  my  wife  and  father,  went  through 
one  of  your  classes  and  my  two  little  daughters 
were  permitted  to  sit  with  us.  Later,  they  had 
the  privilege  of  class  instruction  with  you  and 
remain  your  loyal  students. 

I  came  with  doubts  and  fears  to  see  if  Chris- 
tian Science  could  help  me.  I  found  you  so 
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sympathetic  and  practical,  meeting  all  my  op- 
posing arguments  so  rationally,  kindly,  and 
scientifically,  according  to  the  teachings  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  that  my  ideas  regarding 
Life  and  God  quickly  changed.  Your  careful 
guidance  and  watchfulness  of  me,  as  your  stu- 
dent, drove  away  my  fears,  so  that  I  became  a 
well  man,  attending  to  my  daily  duties.  You 
may  be  interested  to  know  that  I  have  not  been 
obliged  to  remain  away  from  my  business  a 
single  day  during  the  past  year.  For  this  I 
surely  owe  you  a  debt  of  love. 

Your  pure,  uplifting  spiritual  example,  in 
holding  me  to  Principle,  the  law  of  God,  and 
your  fidelity  to  Christian  Science,  as  taught  by 
our  revered  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  has 
been  my  guide  through  all  these  years  and  has 
resulted  in  changing  my  whole  character,  more 
perhaps  than  even  you  realize.  For  this  I  am 
forever  indebted  to  our  beloved  Leader,  and  to 
you,  her  faithful  student. 

Your  unswerving  devotion  to  the  Cause  of 
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Christian  Science,  and  under  all  conditions  and 
circumstances  to  our  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
the  world's  spiritual  Guide,  has  been  to  me 
a  Christly  example  of  love  and  sincerity  of 
purpose.     Your  never  swerving  watchful  care 
for  your  flock  makes  you  ever  ready  with  coun- 
sel, or  reproof,  when  needed,  as  it  invariably 
is,  under  the  frailty  of  human  nature.     I  have 
observed  this  never  failing  labor  of  love   for 
others,  during  the  whole  of  this  long  period, 
first  as  church  member,  and  more  intimately  as 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.     For  fifteen 
years  before  we  were  called,  in  1909,  by  our 
Leader,  to  begin  to  build  ' '  on  a  wholly  spiritual 
foundation,"'  I  was  Treasurer  of  your  church. 
First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York 
City. 

During  much  of  this  time  I  served  with  the 
same  Board  of  Trustees,  who,  in  the  fall  of  1909, 
gave  expression  of  their  esteem  for  your  work 
with  them  in  the  following  Resolution  pub- 

'  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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lished  in  your  book,  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and 
Correspondence,  page  605,  and  which  I  now  wish 
to  recall : 

Resolution  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
OF  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
New  York  City,  November  24,  1909 

Resolved,  That  we  accept  with  unfeigned 
regret,  and  only  at  her  urgent  request,  the 
resignation  of  Mrs.  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.S.D., 
as  a  member  of  this  Board  of  Trustees. 

In  her  official  relations,  Mrs.  Stetson  has  given 
us  service  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  in 
the  effort  to  further  the  Cause  of  Christian 
Science  in  this  community.  Whoever  knows 
anything  of  the  progress  of  the  movement,  in 
the  period  covered  by  these  years,  is  aware  that, 
so  far  as  this  branch  church  is  concerned,  she 
has  been  beyond  all  comparison  the  foremost 
contributor  to  the  labors  required  for  the  results 
accomplished,  and  that  the  cardinal  precept  of 
her  teaching  and  example  has  always  been,  as  it 
is  now,  that  of  unswerving  loyalty  to  our  beloved 
Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  to  her  teachings. 

Both  from  the  standpoint  of  material  achieve- 
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ment,  as  well  as  from  that  of  spiritual  attainment, 
she  has  left  the  evidence  of  her  untiring  devotion, 
in  the  structure  which  houses  this  congrega- 
tion, in  the  large  body  of  adherents  which  assem- 
bles here  regularly  for  worship,  and  above  all  in 
the  spiritual  growth  of  the  membership  of  this 
church.  But  for  the  inspiration  of  her  faith  and 
the  stimulus  of  her  high  and  earnest  purpose, 
none  of  these  results  would  have  been  attained 
in  any  such  measure.  For  ourselves,  therefore, 
as  Trustees,  we  rejoice  in  the  work  which  she  has 
done,  we  are  grateful  in  that  we  have  been  per- 
mitted to  share  the  work  with  her  as  co-laborers, 
and  we  desire  to  record  our  recognition  of  the 
great  spiritual  blessings  which  have  come  to  us 
in  official  association  with  her. 

E.  F.  Hatfield,  Chairman. 

John  D.  Higgins,  Clerk. 

This  Resolution  embodies  my  present  feelings 
which,  during  all  these  years,  have  never 
changed. 

Your  faithful  student, 

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12  West  96  Street, 
New  York  City. 

October  8,  1919. 
Beloved  teacher: — 

As  I  read  your  book,  Reminiscences,  Sermons, 
and  Correspondence,  I  am  deeply  impressed  with 
the  continuity  with  which  you  have  preached, 
practised,  and  proven  to  the  world,  up  to  the 
present  time,  the  teaching  of  our  revered  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  that '  *  Clad  in  the  panoply  of 
Love,  human  hatred  cannot  reach  you,"^  and 
"all  is  Life,  and  there  is  no  death. "^ 

In  the  beginning  of  your  work  in  Christian 
Science  you 

.  .  .  emphatically  declared  [to  a  questioner]: 
'*I  am  not  trying  to  demonstrate  death;  I  am 
trying  to  make  the  demonstration  of  eternal  Life. 
What  Mrs.  Eddy  says  is  true.     I  am  immortal, 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  571. 
2  Science  and  Health,  page  331. 

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and  the  mortal  thought  must  gradually  be  de- 
stroyed." She  exclaimed,  "Well,  you  are  in- 
sane ! "  I  replied :  "  I  am  not.  I  shall  continue  to 
declare  that  I  am  immortal  and  that  the  belief  of 
a  mortal  mind  must  yield  to  Truth.  There  is  no 
death.  God  is  All"  {Reminiscences,  Sermons, 
and  Correspondence,  p.  13). 

Twenty-four  years  later,  in  1909,  under  condi- 
tions that  tested  and  proved  your  loyalty  to 
Principle  and  to  the  "highest  visible  idea,"' 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  you  wrote  to  the  Trustees  of 
your  church.  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist. 
New  York  City,  as  follows : 

7  West  96TH  Street,  New  York  City, 

October  5,  1909. 

Trustees  of  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
New  York  City. 

My  trusted,  faithful  Students: — ^ 

The  Word  of  God  shall  ''have  free  course,  and  he 
glorified.''     "Pray  for  us  .   .    .  that  we  may  be 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  560. 

^Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  pages  587- 
589. 

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a  ^riiiute  of  Hobe 

delivered  from  unreasonable  .  .  .  men*'  (II 
Thess.  iii.,  1,2). 

You  are  the  Word  manifest.  You  are  God's 
mouthpieces, — spiritual  ideas.  You  must  speak, 
and  never  cease  speaking  the  Word,  until  you 
have  expressed  what  God  desires  the  people  to 
know.  God  has  given  you  this  knowledge  of 
the  enemies'  fear.  Do  not  let  the  false  claim  of 
malicious  animal  magnetism  handle  you,  but 
declare  for  divine  democracy  and  for  your  liberty 
as  the  sons  of  God.  Let  each  declare  repeatedly 
for  his  loyalty  to  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  to  The  Mother 
Church — "The  structure  of  Truth  and  Love" 
{Science  and  Health,  p.  583).  Keep  realizing 
and  repeating  the  spiritual  fact  of  being,  that 
your  voices  may  drown  the  false  mental  argu- 
ment that  has  been  put  into  consciousness.  De- 
fend your  divine  birthright,  your  oneness  with 
God. 

You  cannot  lose  any  object  in  divine  Mind, 
and  there  is  no  other  mind.  The  church  is  com- 
posed of  the  people  of  God.  Its  members  are 
not  in  belief,  nor  in  matter  forms  of  belief.  God  is 
there  in  His  church  with  His  people.  Love  is 
there;  evil  has  neither  place,  presence,  nor  power. 
You  can  stand  in  the  Christ-consciousness  know- 
ing that  God  is  there,  and  God  is  All.     Belief, 

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and  its  manifestation,  a  material  man  and  ma- 
terial universe,  is  illusion,  and  its  claim  to  a  voice 
is  not  to  be  heard  nor  believed.  It  is  neither 
person,  man,  woman,  nor  child.  It  is  mortality, 
in  all  its  manifested  shadows,  which  must  dis- 
appear as  man  appears  and  voices  God,  the  ever- 
present  I  AM. 

Realize  your  immortal  consciousness,  and  let 
God  raise  His  own  witnesses  to  fight  the  "beasts 
at  Ephesus."  Let  each  dare  to  be  a  Paul,  and 
prove  the  power  of  Truth  and  Love.  You  are 
called,  chosen,  and  faithful.  You  are  God's 
voice  expressed  in  individual  man.  He  will 
reflect,  through  each  of  you,  His  intelligence.  His 
wisdom  and  His  love — which  are  able  to  dispel 
beliefs,  which  have  no  Principle,  no  substance, 
therefore  no  reality.  Let  Love's  rod  and  Love's 
staff  sustain  you. 

The  "great  red  dragon,"  the  Adam-dream,  or 
lie,  never  was,  and  never  will  be  able  to  stand 
before  the  Christ  in  you,  and  in  those  who  reflect 
Christ.  There  is  no  presence  but  the  one  God 
and  His  ideas.  Let  "the  word  of  the  Lord  .  .  . 
have  free  course,  and  be  glorified"  (II  Thess. 
iii.,  i).     Man  is  God's  glory. 

Faithfully,  lovingly  yours, 

Augusta  E.  Stetson. 
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The  instructions  therein  given,  breathing  the 
spirit  of  genuine  Christian  Science,  I  have 
proven  to  be  true.  Never  has  a  teacher  of 
Christian  Science  met  and  overcome,  with 
divine  love,  "such  contradition  of  sinners."^ 
Never  has  there  been  one  who  could  bear  the 
heat  and  burden  of  the  ''accuser"^  as  you,  our 
faithful  teacher — faithful  to  your  Leader  and 
Teacher,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  faithful  to  the 
trust  she  reposed  in  you,  to  defend  the  ''Chris- 
tianity of  Christian  Science,"^  to  "love  more 
for  every  hate," 4  "to  build  .  .  .  on  a  wholly 
spiritual  foundation "^  and  not  be  separated^ 
from  her.  Judging  from  your  triumphant  en- 
counters with  the  opposers  of  present  immortal- 
ity, or  the  spiritual  idea,  it  would  seem  that 
already  you  have  fulfilled  the  law  of  Love. 
For  twenty -four  years  Mrs.  Taylor  and  I  have 

been  blessed  by  your  teaching  and  example  and 

I  Hebrews  xii.,  3.  ^  Revelation  xii.,  10. 

3  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  page  14. 

4  Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  389. 

s  Miscellany,  page  357.  ^  Miscellany,  page  358. 

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have  walked  in  fellowship  with  you.  We,  as 
students,  have  seen  how,  in  a  practical  manner, 
you  have  demonstrated  genuine  Christian 
Science  as  promulgated  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy 
and  as  given  by  her  to  the  field  in  1910,  in  the 
following  words : 

You  can  never  demonstrate  spirituality  until 
you  declare  yourself  to  be  immortal  and  under- 
stand that  you  are  so.  Christian  Science  is  abso- 
lute; it  is  neither  behind  the  point  of  perfection 
nor  advancing  toward  it;  it  is  at  this  point  and 
must  be  practised  therefrom.  Unless  you  fully 
perceive  that  you  are  the  child  of  God,  hence 
perfect,  you  have  no  Principle  to  demonstrate 
and  no  rule  for  its  demonstration  {Christian 
Science  Sentinel,  September  3,  1910). 

You  have  demonstrated  spiritual  strength, 
wisdom,  and  love,  with  which  to  prove  to  the 
world  the  value  of  Christian  Science — therefore : 

What  if  the  old  dragon  should  send  forth  a  new 
flood  to  drown  the  Christ-idea?  He  can  neither 
drown  your  voice  with  its  roar,  nor  again  sink 
the  world  into  the  deep  waters  of  chaos  and  old 
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night.  In  this  age  the  earth  will  help  the  woman ; 
the  spiritual  idea  will  be  understood.  Those 
ready  for  the  blessing  you  impart  will  give  thanks. 
The  waters  will  be  pacified,  and  Christ  will  com- 
mand the  wave  {Science  and  Health,  p.  570). 

I  have  just  read  in  Miscellany,  page  175, 
these  words  of  Mrs.  Eddy's: 

I  am  sure  that  the  counterfeit  letters  in  circu- 
lation, purporting  to  have  my  signature,  must 
fail  to  influence  the  minds  of  this  dear  people  to 
conclusions  the  very  opposite  of  my  real  senti- 
ments. 

These  words  are  significant  of  the  opposition 
Mrs.  Eddy  encountered  from  the  persecutors  of 
the  Truth  she  was  teaching  and  demonstrating. 

Right  here,  dear  teacher,  let  me  remind  you 
of  the  time  when  we  were  deciding  upon  the 
inscription  which  was  to  go  upon  the  tablet  of 
our  Church  Edifice.  You  will  remember  that 
you  wrote  out  the  inscription :  ^ 

'  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  facing  page 
34. 

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FIRST  CHURCH 

OF 

CHRIST  SCIENTIST 

NEW  YORK  CITY 

ERECTED 

ANNO   DOMINI   MDCCCXCIX 

A  TRIBUTE 

OF 

LOVE   AND   GRATITUDE 

TO   OUR 

LEADER  AND  TEACHER 

THE  REVEREND 

MARY  BAKER  EDDY 

DISCOVERER   AND   FOUNDER   OF 

CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE 

AND  AUTHOR 
OF  ITS  TEXT  BOOK 

SCIENCE  AND   HEALTH 

WITH   KEY   TO   THE 

SCRIPTURES 

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In  talking  it  over  with  you  and  the  rest  of 
your  Board  of  Trustees,  I  suggested  that  we 
inscribe  the  Tablet,  "To  the  Glory  of  God." 
You  see  I  had  not  quite  outgrown  my  scholastic 
sense  and  thought  that  using  Mrs.  Eddy's  name 
might  be  personal.  You  felt  that  you  were 
right  and  said,  **Let  us  make  two  plans  of 
tablets  of  cardboard.  Inscribe  one,  'To  the 
Glory  of  God'  and  one,  'A  Tribute  of  Love 
and  Gratitude  to  Our  Leader  and  Teacher, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,'  and  send  them  to  Mrs. 
Eddy. ' '  You  told  us — the  Trustees — that  only  a 
few  weeks  before,  you  were  with  Mrs.  Eddy  and 
told  her  that  we  were  thinking  of  placing  upon 
the  Church  Edifice  an  inscription  of  love  and 
gratitude  to  her.  You  also  stated,  "I  asked, 
'Would  you  object  to  this,  Mrs.  Eddy?'  She 
repHed,  'Why  should  I  object  to  an  expression 
of  love  and  gratitude  from  you  and  your  stu- 
dents?' 'Then  I  have  your  permission  to  do 
it,'  I  replied.  She  answered,  'You  certainly 
have!'"  Then  the  cardboards  were  prepared 
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and  sent  to  Mrs.  Eddy.  This,  in  your  wise 
guidance,  you  did  to  assure  us  of  Mrs.  Eddy's 
approval. 

I  have  in  my  hand  to-day  a  copy  of  an  extract 
from  the  letter  which  Mrs.  Eddy  sent  on  the 
receipt  of  the  plans  which  you  sent  to  her  for 
her  decision,  which  reads  as  follows: 

What  if  your  Church  Edifice  in  the  near  future 
be  desecrated  and  used  by  others?  Then  your 
inscription  "To  the  Glory  of  God"  would  be  a 
stumbling  block.  I  advise  you  not  to  engrave 
that  assertion  on  stone  but  write  it  on  your 
hearts,  and  demonstrate  it  in  your  glorious  lives. 
Let  it  be  at  present  a  silent  desire  and  God  will 
reward  the  prayer.  A  declaration  before  a 
preparation  of  the  heart  is  a  hindrance  to 
advancement. 

The  Scriptures  say  "The  preparation  of  the 
heart  and  the  answer  of  the  tongue  is  from  the 
Lord.''  Believe  me,  dear  ones,  that  I  am  writing 
this  from  a  heart  overflowing  with  love  for  you 
and  with  an  earnest  prayer  for  your  prosperity. 
As  ever, 

Yours  lovingly, 

Mary  B.  G.  Eddy. 
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This  excerpt  from  Mrs.  Eddy's  letter,  of 
which  many  of  your  students  have  a  copy,  has 
strengthened  our  endeavors  to  fulfil  the  law  of 
Love — the  key  which  unlocks  the  portals  of 
heaven  and  entitles  the  wrestler  for  immortality, 
to  the  words  of  welcome : 

Come,  ye  blessed  of  my  Father,  inherit  the 
kingdom  prepared  for  you  from  the  foundation 
of  the  world  (Matthew  xxv.,  34). 

I  now  see  the  wisdom  of  our  great  Leader, 
Mrs.  Eddy.  To-day  I  realize  that  only  through 
spiritual  sense  can  we  give  God  the  ''Glory." 
The  great  spiritual  development  of  the  past  ten 
years,  during  which  we  have  walked  closely 
with  the  impersonal  idea,  our  beloved  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  from  whom  we  have  never 
been  separated  and  to  whom  loving  gratitude 
was  inscribed — this  wholly  spiritual  develop- 
ment or  vision  of  reality,  has  entitled  us  to 
sonship  with  God  and  we  have  written  on  our 
"hearts,"  "To  the  Glory  of  God." 
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We  were,  at  that  hour  of  our  demonstration, 
prepared  to  give  loving  gratitude  to  our  revered 
Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  who  was  then  visible  to  us. 
Having  built  higher  on  a  ''wholly  spiritual 
foundation  "  in  response  to  our  Leader's  request, 
we  are  now  enabled  to  inscribe  mentally  on  the 
Church  Triumphant,'  ''The  structure  of  Truth 
and  Love,"'  this  inscription,  "To  the  Glory  of 
God."  Man  is  God's  "Glory."  Thus  the 
unity  of  God  and  His  ideas,  or  sons  and 
daughters,  is  attained. 

To-day  we  reahze  that  the  "preparation  of 
the  heart  and  the  answer  of  the  tongue  is  jrom 
the  Lord''  the  spiritual  idea,  the  "Word"  or  the 
mouthpiece  of  God,  the  compound  ideal  man, 
to  whom  we  inscribed  upon  our  Church  Tablet 
these  words,  "A  Tribute  of  Love  and  Gratitude 
to  Mary  Baker  Eddy,"  who  was  and  is  the 
Word  of  the  Lord,  heard  and  obeyed  by  those 
who  have  spiritual  vision. 

»  Manual  oj  The  Mother  Church,  page  19. 
» Science  and  Health,  page  583. 
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To-day  we  appreciate  the  watch-care  of  our 
beloved  Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  expressed 
in  her  words,  "I  am  writing  this  from  a  heart 
overflowing  with  love  for  you  and  with  an  earnest 
prayer  for  your  prosperity. ' '  We  also  appreciate 
your  faithful  spiritual  care  and  guidance,  which 
have  enabled  us  to  * '  wait  patiently  on  the  Lord  " 
until  the  restoration  of  all  things.  With  John, 
the  beloved  disciple,  we  repeat,  ''Come,  Lord 
Jesus,"  and  we  hear:  * 

Behold,  I  come  quickly;  and  my  reward  is 
with  me,  to  give  every  man  according  as  his  work 
shall  be  (Revelation  xxii.,  12). 

Gratefully,  faithfully  your  student, 


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30  Church  Street, 
New  York  City. 

October  4,  1919. 
My  beloved  teacher: — 

At  various  times  during  the  past  summer  have 
I  been  moved  to  write  you.  But  not  until 
quite  lately  has  my  thought  seemed  to  reach 
that  clearness  of  realization,  which  compels 
expression.  Now,  however,  when  the  world  is 
passing  through  its  birth-throes,  of  the  advent 
of  a  new  era,  what  appears  more  timely  than  to 
focus  thought  on  these  words  of  our  revered 
Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy: 

Take  away  wealth,  fame,  and  social  organiza- 
tions, which  weigh  not  one  jot  in  the  balance  of 
God,  and  we  get  clearer  views  of  Principle.  Break 
up  cliques,  level  wealth  with  honesty,  let  worth 
be  judged  according  to  wisdom,  and  we  get 
better  views  of  humanity  (Science  and  Healthy 
p.  239). 

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In  the  world-wide  chemicalization  of  con- 
temporary humanity,  God  is  weighing  human 
standards,  relations,  institutions,  and  ideals  in 
His  balance.  He  is  revealing  to  us,  that  these 
are  as  nothing  in  the  scales  beside  spiritual 
values — against  the  things  that  make  for  "peace 
on  earth  among  men  of  good  will"  (Revised 
Version).  The  words  of  our  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy, 
bring  home,  with  prophetic  clearness,  the 
truth  that  you,  my  teacher,  have  driven  home, 
in  season  and  out  of  season,  the  spiritual 
fact  that  these  "clearer  views  of  Principle"  are 
the  consciousness  that  absolute  Spirit  taber- 
nacles with  men.  Thus  Principle  and  idea,  God 
and  man,  coexist  with  one  accord  in  one  place. 
Mrs.  Eddy  verifies  this  in  the  following  words: 

John  saw  the  human  and  divine  coincidence, 
shown  in  the  man  Jesus,  as  divinity  embracing 
humanity  in  Life  and  its  demonstration, — reduc- 
ing to  human  perception  and  understanding  the 
Life  which  is  God.  In  divine  revelation,  material 
and  corporeal  selfhood  disappear,  and  the  spirit- 
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ual  idea  is  understood  (Science  and  Healthy  p. 
561). 

Whenever  man  is  conscious  of  his  unity  with 
Principle,  omnipotent  Spirit,  Truth  and  Love, 
there  is  the  Father's  house,  not  made  with 
hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens. 

The  key  to  the  kingdom,  the  very  gateway  to 
the  Father's  house,  is  this  recognition  of  the 
Christ — Truth — that  we  are  the  sons  of  God. 
Therefore,  in  that  inexhaustible  treasure  of  the 
fourteenth  chapter  of  the  Gospel  of  John,  in 
the  Master's  great  heart-to-heart  talk  with  his 
disciples,  he  bade  them  not  to  let  their  hearts 
be  troubled — not  to  admit,  as  real,  the  surround- 
ing discord — but  to  believe  in  (understand)  him, 
the  exponent  of  Sonship,  even  as  they  believed 
in  the  Father — God.  To  Jesus  the  Christ, 
believing  in  him  meant  living  with  him — living 
with  Christ  in  God — admitting  only  his  divine 
selfhood  as  the  Word  of  God.  For  what  else 
could  that  climax  of  spiritual  unity  and  fellow- 
ship mean,  which  says: 

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If  a  man  love  me  [live  with  me],  he  will  keep 
[voice]  my  words:  and  my  Father  will  love  him 
and  we  will  come  unto  him,  and  make  our  abode 
with  him  (John  xiv.,  23). 

Certainly  the  great  need  of  the  world  to-day 
is  "clearer  views  of  Principle,"  omnipotent 
Mind,  and  ''better  views  of  humanity."  These 
basic  requisites  of  the  new  era,  where  peace 
shall  reign,  can  come  into  realization  only  as  all 
things  human  submit  themselves  to  the  judg- 
ments of  Spirit,  Truth.  Only  as  government 
comes  to  rest  its  cause  on  the  shoulder  of  right- 
eousness, the  IVEind  of  Christ,  finding  expression 
no  longer  in  political,  or  economic,  or  ecclesiasti- 
cal oligarchies,  but  rather  in  those  just  judg- 
ments derived  from  the  common  consent  of  the 
spiritual  sense  of  brotherhood,  can  we  hope  to 
find  the  peace,  that  will  endure  and  yield  the 
fruits  of  the  Spirit,  love,  joy,  and  peace,  for  the 
feeding  of  the  nations. 

Let  me  congratulate  you,  my  dear  teacher,  on 
the  thirty-three  consecutive  years  of  active 
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service,  which  you  have  been  enabled  to  give  to 
this  great  and  glorious  ministry,  and  in  defend- 
ing and  demonstrating  Christian  Science,  as 
taught  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  God  is  revealing 
to  the  wise,  that  the  ferment  in  things  human 
has  come  from  the  work,  which  you  and  your 
Christly  co-workers — who  are  building  on  a 
''wholly  spiritual  foundation"' — have  done  to 
lead  the  nations  to  a  clearer  conviction  of  the 
imperative  necessity  of  knowing  and  obeying 
God  and  His  laws.  ' '  Spirit  is  infinite ;  therefore 
Spirit  is  all.     'There  is  no  matter.' " ^ 

There  is  much  more  I  should  like  to  write, 
but  I  feel  it  is  only  just  that  I  should  say  this 
now,  in  view  of  the  great  help  which  you  have 
given  me,  in  the  many  years  past,  in  applying 
the  teaching  of  our  revered  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy, 
to  the  interpretation  of  public  events  and 
human  movements. 

Truly  "our  God  is  a  consuming  fire"^  to  all 

'  Miscellany,  page  357.  '  Miscellany,  page  357. 

3  Hebrews  xii.,  29. 

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that  is  unjust  and  evil,  and  a  Father  to  all  who 
put  their  trust  in  Him. 

Yours  faithfully  in  Truth, 


John  Franklin  Crowell,  Ph.D.,  was  for  years  a 
co-Trustee  with  Mrs.  Stetson  in  her  church,  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City. 


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New  York  City. 

November  21,  19 19. 
Dearly  beloved  teacher: — 

We  have  been  discussing  your  demonstration 
of  the  teachings  of  Christ  Jesus  and  our  revered 
Leader,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  we  rejoice  that 
you  have  not  failed  in  your  adherence  to  Prin- 
ciple and  your  proof  of  the  power  of  Love  and 
Truth,  as  idea,  or  a  reflector  of  Life,  Truth,  and 
Love,  the  Principle  of  Being. 

We  therefore  ask  that  you  read  the  enclosed 
facsimile  letter  and  excerpts  of  letters  from 
Mrs.  Eddy  which  we  know  will  encourage  you  to 
continue  building  on  *'a  wholly  spiritual  founda- 
tion"' until  your  Leader  and  Teacher  appears 
to  your  spirituaHzed  vision,  with  the  crown  of 
immortality.  You  will  recognize  her  immortal 
presence  and  hear  again  her  voice  saying,  ' '  Well 

'  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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a  ^xibntt  of  Hobe 

done,  thou  good  and  faithful  servant :  thou  hast 
been  faithful  over  a  few  things,  I  will  make  thee 
ruler  over  many  things :  enter  thou  into  the  joy 
of  thy  Lord."^ 

Faithfully  and  loyally  your  students, 


'  Matthew  xxv.,  21. 


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New  York  City. 

November  20,  191 9. 
Beloved  teacher: — 

When  the  heart  overflows  with  gratitude  and 
love  it  seeks  to  bless  those  dearest  to  its  hope, 
those  who  have  entered  its  secret. 

With  finger  pointing  onward  and  upward,  and 
with  a  devotion  which  is  divine,  you  have  led 
the  throbbing  desires  (prayers)  of  your  loyal 
students,  to  a  living  well  of  happiness,  joy,  and 
health  in  Christ.  Your  loyalty  to  our  Cause 
and  Christ,  in  Christian  Science,  has  held  open 
the  door  of  the  present  day  ''Ark,"  which  our 
holy  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  has  built  for  the  child- 
ren of  Israel  in  the  twentieth  century.  This 
"Ark"  is  spiritual  consciousness  lighted  by 
divine  Science  and  animated  by  the  living  God, 
Love,  Life,  and  Truth. 

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''Many  are  called"  to  enter  this  dwelling 
place,  ''but  few  are  chosen." '  Many  have  been 
led  to  the  entrance  of  this  holy  habitation,  but 
have  turned  back,  when  they  found  they  had  to 
pass  in  under  the  rod  of  divine  Love.  Only 
those  can  enter  who  have  spiritual  vision  and 
behold  the  spiritual  idea,  for  no  others  are  able 
to  hear  the  strain  of  heaven's  music — joy, 
harmony,  and  melody, 

...  to  which  belongs 
The  tongue  of  angels 
And  the  song  of  songs. 

Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

Dearest  teacher,  your  students  are  loyal  to 
Principle  and  idea,  through  purification  of 
heart  and  consciousness — "the  Church  Uni- 
versal and  Triumphant."''  We  are  under  the 
rod  in  the  vestibule  of  this  "Ark,"  looking 
through  the  open  door,  while  our  names  are 
being  written  in  the  book  of  Life,  as  members  of 

^  Matthew  xxii.,  14. 

^  Manual  of  The  Mother  Church,  page  19. 

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the  household  of  God,  the  spiritual  generation 
of  eternal  Life  and  Love.  The  new  heaven  and 
earth  are  appearing  and  God  is  indeed  dwelling 
with  His  children  on  the  earth. 

We  behold  the  vision  of  St.  John  unfolding  to 
the  present  day  demonstrators  of  Truth : 

And  there  appeared  a  great  wonder  in  heaven; 
a  woman  clothed  with  the  sun,  and  the  moon 
under  her  feet,  and  upon  her  head  a  crown  of 
twelve  stars : 

And  she  being  with  child  cried,  travailing  in 
birth,  and  pained  to  be  delivered  (Revelation 
xii.,  I,  2). 

As  far  as  human  language  can  express  St. 
John's  vision,  we  see  consciousness  pregnant 
with  spiritual  conception.  The  obstetrician, 
Christ,  is  in  evidence  to  deliver  the  Man-child 
in  the  image  and  likeness  of  God.  Voices 
(tender  mental  impressions)  which  are  ''the 
angels  of  His  presence"^  are  calling  the  wise 
men  of  to-day  to  attend  the  proper  birth  and  to 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  174. 
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remove  the  after-birth — the  outward  and  false 
concept — which  has  hid  from  view  the  spiritual 
idea.  The  prominent  presence  of  the  obstetri- 
cian, Christ,  is  uniting  the  members  of  the 
household  of  faith  and  understanding,  to  re- 
ceive the  child,  baptize  it  "Immanuel"^  and  to 
sing  the  joyous  song,  Christ  and  they  that  are 
Christ's  at  his  reappearance  "shall  reign  for 
ever  and  ever."^ 

The  womb  of  divine  Love,  the  Motherhood  of 
God,  has  conceived  and  has  shielded  her  "Prince 
of  Peace,  "^  the  spiritual  idea,  from  Herod,  the 
would-be  mental  assassin  (the  carnal  mind) 
unto  the  fulness  of  this  time,  in  which  we  are 
now  waiting  the  deliverance  of  the  compound, 
spiritual  idea  of  Life  and  Love.  Thus  the 
Mother  Love  conceives  man  in  the  image  and 
likeness  of  God,  Mind,  and  the  animating,  vital- 
izing Fatherhood  unites  with  the  Mother  Love, 
as  compound  Principle,  or  "the  divine  'Us,"'^ 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  34.  =»  Revelation  xi.,  15. 

3  Isaiah  ix.,  6.  ^  Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  18. 

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in  expressing  their  infinite  ideas.  This  is  the 
teaching  of  Christ  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 
We  are  Hstening  to  the  instructions  of  the  ob- 
stetrician, Christ,  to  guard  against  ''wolves  in 
sheep's  clothing"'  also  thieves  and  murderers, 
the  agents  of  Satan,  who  are  ever  at  the  heels 
of  those  who  pass  under  the  rod  and  are  ready 
to '  *  enter  by  the  door  "  ^  of  the  sheepfold.  Christ 
said,  *'I  am  the  door  of  the  sheep. "^ 

Our  blessed  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  has  sealed 
the  remnant  of  her  seed,  the  loyal  Christian 
Scientists,  who  are  building  on  "a  wholly  spirit- 
ual foundation.  "4  She  has  sealed  them  with 
spiritual  discernment. 

In  Science  and  Health,  page  560,  Mrs.  Eddy 
distinguishes  between  the  Christian  Science 
metaphysician  and  the  so-called  Scientist,  who 
uses  only  the  letter  of  Christian  Science,  and 
who  is  at  ease  with  the  material  world.     She 

*  Science  and  Health,  page  567. 

'Poems,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  14. 

3  John  X.,  7.  4  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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a  tCrihute  of  Xobe 

says,  ''without  a  correct  sense  of  its  highest 
visible  idea,  we  can  never  understand  the  divine 
Principle."  Hence,  by  the  will  of  God,  this  is 
the  present  day  order  of  the  law  of  Light  and 
Life — to  ''know  thee  the  only  true  God,  and 
Jesus  Christ  [and  Mary,  the  Christ,  the  com- 
pound idea],  whom  thou  hast  sent,"'  and 
Augusta,  the  Christ,  "the  first-born,"'  of  spirit- 
ual generation.  The  term  Christ  belongs  to 
every  child  of  God,  and  should  be  used  before 
every  name,  since  God  is  the  only  Father  and 
Mother  of  man.  The  belief-man,  or  so-called 
man  of  flesh,  is  not  the  Christ  idea.  It  will 
finally  be  understood  that  a  belief-man  is  not 
the  spiritual  man.  In  this  spiritual  under- 
standing, your  loyal  students  are  related  to 
each  other  through  Principle,  one  Father- 
Mother,  and  must  proclaim  to  all  the  world,  the 
spiritual  fact,  the  Day  of  God  and  His  Christ, 
"The  irradiance  of  Life;  light "^  is  come: 

=t  John  xvii.,  3.  =« Hebrews  xii.,  23. 

3 Science  and  Health,  page  584. 

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And  the  government  shall  be  upon  His  shoul- 
der: and  His  name  shall  be  called  Wonderful, 
Counsellor,  The  mighty  God,  The  everlasting 
Father,  The  Prince  of  Peace  (Isaiah  ix.,  6). 

Dear  teacher,  we  realize  what  has  made  us 
able  to  discern  "the  signs  of  the  times."  It  is 
your  unfaltering  obedience  to  Principle,  your 
qualities  of  loyalty,  love,  purity,  and  devotion 
to  our  holy  Mother  in  Israel,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
the  Leader  of  all  loyal  Christian  Scientists. 
This  glorious  Truth  is  written  in  our  hearts. 
We  have  voiced  it  before,  but  we  must  con- 
tinue to  voice  Christ's  presence  with  a  stronger 
conviction,  and  prepare  consciousness  for  the 
recognition  of  the  demonstration  of  present 
immortality.  Christian  Science  will  bring  the 
visible  second  appearing  of  Christ,  the  ideal  man 
of  God's  creating,  victor  over  a  so-called  material 
generation,  which  ultimates  in  suffering,  sorrow, 
illusion — nothingness.  Loyal  followers  of  our 
great  Leader,  Mrs.  Eddy,  must  know  that 
nothing  is  more  vital,  in  this  hour,  than  the 
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thought,  contemplation,  and  demonstration  of 
present  immortality. 

You,  dear  heart,  are  God  appointed  to  demon- 
strate your  royal  birthright,  the  ''first-born"  in 
spiritual  generation.  Your  students  must  lis- 
ten for  the  voice  of  the  obstetrician,  Christ,  the 
spiritual  idea  of  all  times : 

Have  I  been  so  long  time  with  you,  and  yet 
hast  thou  not  known  me,  Philip?  he  that  hath 
seen  me  hath  seen  the  Father;  and  how  sayest 
thou  then,  Shew  us  the  Father?     (John  xiv.,  9.) 

All  Christian  Scientists  who  to-day  are  build- 
ing with  you  on  "a  wholly  spiritual  foundation  " 
may  look  into  your  dear  face  with  love  and 
gratitude,  and  be  rewarded  by  him,  Christ,  who 
is  back  of  the  veil  of  the  flesh  and  is  looking 
through  its  transparency  upon  spiritual  activity, 
the  unfolding  of  spiritual  ideas  in  the  teeming 
universe  of  Life  and  Love.  To-day  let  us  shout, 
* '  Hear,  O  Israel :  The  Lord  our  God  is  one  Lord, ' ' ' 

'  Deuteronomy  vi.,  4. 

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and  ''Except  the  Lord  build  the  house,  they 
labour  in  vain  that  build  it."^ 

Dearest  visible  guide  to  life  in  God,  your  stu- 
dents are  mindful  of  your  coming  forth  from  the 
matter  ''image,"  which  was  not,  is  not,  and 
never  can  be  real.  It  is  fast  dissolving  under 
the  solvent  of  Life  and  Love.  Your  resurrec- 
tion is  quickening  your  students'  vision  to  a 
speedy  and  happy  at-one-ment  with  Principle 
and  idea.  This  vision,  completed,  will  rend  the 
veil  of  the  temple  (material  conception)  forever, 
and  material  generation,  so-called,  will  give 
place  to  spiritual  generation  and  the  revelation 
of  God,  eternal  Love  and  Life,  the  compound 
Principle  of  all  reality — infinite  Life  and  Love, 
and  their  infinite  manifestation.  Thus  will  be 
proved  the  scientific  fact  of  being,  viz.,  that 
God  creates  and  governs  His  people,  who 
compose  the  only  real  and  eternal  universe. 

As  we  have  no  other  means,  as  yet,  to  express 
our  love  and  gratitude,  we  send  you,  in  type, 

'Psalm  cxxvii.,  i. 

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our  gold  of  character,  and  an  orange  tree  with 
ripening  fruit,  to  symbolize  our  consciousness, 
which  is  bearing  good  fruit  as  the  result  of  your 
planting,  nursing,  and  watering. 

Faithfully  your  student, 


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What  have  I  to  give  you, — just  a  bit  of  gold? 
Nay,  that  is  but  symbol  of  the  gifts  I  hold 
In  the  unseen  casket  of  my  secret  thought, — 
Things  of  lasting  lustre,  which  my  heart  has  wrought. 

There  is  recognition  of  your  Christly  life, 

Of  your  high  commission  in  the  holy  strife, 

Of  your  constant  courage,  won  from  conquered 

fears. 
Of  your  lonely  triumphs  over  toils  and  tears. 

There,  enwrapped  in  yearning,  glows  my  gratitude 
For  your  great  example,  firm  and  faith-endued, 
Of  the  love  that  falters  not  in  darkest  night. 
But  walks  on,  unasking  either  sound  or  sight. 

There,  a  polished  jewel,  shines  the  wonder- word, — 
"Loyal  to  your  Leader."     True  and  undeterred 
By  the  utmost  efforts  of  the  foe  of  good. 
You  fulfilled  her  forecast.     Steadfast,  you  have 
stood. 

Pearls  of  pure  perception  therein  are  enshrined, 
That  you  are  her  witness,  who  is  here,  in  Mind, 
Leading  you,  and  loving,  with  a  love  so  wise, 
That  it  spared  no  testing,  that  could  help  you  rise. 

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Praises,  glad  and  golden,  soft  my  thoughts  enfold, 
That  you  watched  like  Mary,  that  you  ran  and  told 
Those  whose  eyes  were  holden,  how  Love's  chosen 

Own 
Was  not  held  by  matter, — nor  by  steel  nor  stone ! 

Then  you  faced  the  doubters,  dauntless  and  un- 
moved, 
Keeping  pure  her  teaching,  that  Life  can  be  proved, 
Knowing  that  your  Leader  never  was  of  flesh. 
That,  as  Zion's  daughter,  she  must  rise  and  thresh ! 

These,    my    proffered    thought-gems,    need    the 

diamond  dust 
Of  diviner  concepts,  but  my  longing  must 
Burnish  them  to  clearness,  till  I  grow  in  grace 
To  behold  and  know  you,  even  face  to  face. 

December,  19 14. 


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©ur  Heaber  Hibtsi 

Rise  with  the  risen  Christ!     Roll  back  the  stone! 
Our  Leader  lives,  and  leads  her  faithful  own. 
E'en  though  the  flesh  has  vanished,  waning  night 
But  hides  her  presence  from  our  yearning  sight. 

Put  off  the  old  beliefs  of  humankind. 
Man  is  the  likeness  of  immortal  Mind, 
Our  living  God;  it  was  the  Christ  who  said, 
Should  one  appear  to  die,  he  is  not  dead.  ^ 

No  monument  for  her,  God's  chosen  One, 
Who  has  revealed  Life's  allness,  and  has  run 
With  clear-eyed  vision  of  her  glorious  goal, 
The  race  victorious  from  sense  to  Soul ! 

Her  Church  Triumphant  bodies  Truth  and  Love, 
And  "pinnacled  in  Life,"^  soars  high  above 
All  fleeting  fabrics;  builded  without  hands, 
Eternal,  on  the  Rock  of  Christ  it  stands. 

Then  cease  to  till  tradition's  fruitless  fields 

For  some  far  time;  to-day  Truth's  planting  yields 

A  waiting  harvest  for  the  sons  of  Light. 

Lift  up  your  eyes !  the  fields  of  faith  are  white. 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  164. 
'  Pulpit  and  PresSf  pages  2,3. 

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Our  Leader  lives !  nor  stone,  nor  steel,  nor  sod 
Can  hold  her  selfhood, — yea,  the  Christ  of  God, 
Whose  angels  turn  us  from  Time's  empty  tomb 
To  Life's  glad  garden  of  eternal  bloom. 

There  to  behold  her, — God-embodied  Man. 
With  Him  coeval,  ere  the  dream  began. 
Lo!  we  are  at  the  dawning  of  the  Day. 
The  Christ  is  here  to  tear  the  veil  away 

From  all  creation.     Ye  shall  see  and  hear 

Mind's  perfect  image;  radiant  shall  appear 

In  living  glory,  every  God-made  thing. 

For  Love  has  promised.     Rise  ye,  then,  and  sing ! 


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Mv  ^ivi  Countrie 

In  my  Faither's  hoose  are  mansions,  an'  ane  was 

built  for  me, 
**If  it  werena  sae,"  says  Jesus,  **I  wad  surely  tell't 

tae  ye. 
But,  ye  ken,  I  gang  afore  ye,  tae  prepare  ye  noo  a 

place, 
That  ye  may  behold  my  Faither,  that  ye  e'en  may 

see  His  face. 
An'  where  I  gang,  my  bairns,  ye  ken,  and  ken  the 

way, 
For  I  gang  back  tae  my  Faither,  an'  I  can  nae  langer 

stay. 
But  sin'  I  gang  afore  ye,  I  wull  come  again  tae 

see 
That  a'  my  sheep  are  wi'  me  in  my  ain  countrie." 

Oh,  the  beauties  o'  yon  bonnie  Ian'  are  wonder- 

fu'  tae  see, 
For  'tis  the  Lan'  o'  Spirit,  an'  oor  ain  countrie. 

Noo,  ye  ken,  he  didna  break  his  tryst  that  he  wad 

come  again 
Tae  tak  us  tae  his  Faither's  hoose,  frae  oot  the  lions' 

den, 

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But  as  he  made  us  'quented  wi'  his  Faither  wha's 

i'  heav'n, 
Till  oor  hairts,  like  bread,  were  leav'ned  wi'  his 

spiritual  leav'n, 
Sae  he  tell't  us,  God's  oor  Mither.     God  is  Life,  an' 

Truth,  an'  Love, 
He  is  a'  the  Being  there  is  i'  airth  below  and  sky  above. 
For  the  Buik  says  there's  nae  ither.     I  am  God. 

Noo,  look  tae  Me, 
An'  ye'U  fin'  yersels  transported  tae  your  aincountrie. 

Oh,  the  beauties  o'  yon  bonnie  Ian'  are  wonder- 

fu'  tae  see. 
For  'tis  the  Lan'  o'  Spirit,  an'  oor  ain  countrie. 

Sae  we  learn  that  Man  is  image,  an'  that  God  is  aye 

his  Source, 
An'  the  Universe  reflects  Him,  sun,  moon,  stars, 

each  i'  its  course. 
An'  He's  Faither  an'  He's  Mither,  an'  we're  a'  His 

blessed  bairns; 
Sae  let's  come  frae  oot  oor  dungeons,  an'  oor  caves 

an'  rocks  an'  cairns. 
Dae  ye  ask  me,  "Hoo  d'ye  ken  this?"     Hoot!     I 

tak'  the  word  o'  him 
Wha  spake  as  never  man  spake.     An'  I  say  it  noo 

wi'  vim 

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That  he's  come  i'  Christian  Science  that  his  sheep 

may  a'  be  free, 
An'  oor  e'en  wull  see  God's  glory  i'  His  ain  countrie. 

Oh,  the  beauties  o'  yon  bonnie  Ian'  are  wonder- 

fu*  tae  see, 
For  there's  naething  aye  but  Spirit,  i'  God's  ain 

countrie. 


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New  York  City. 

January  14,  1920. 
Beloved  teacher: — 

In  the  dawn  of  the  New  Year,  thought 
naturally  entertains  expectancy  of  the  ''new 
heaven  and  .  .  .  new  earth,"'  and  I  find  myself 
watching  for  the  promised  appearing. 

As  metaphysicians,  we  know  that  there  is  but 
one  Mind  and  that  this  one  Mind  is  Spirit. 
The  real,  eternal  spiritual  universe,  including 
individual  man,  is  the  idea,  thought,  pheno- 
menon of  the  one  Mind,  Spirit. 

As  Christians,  or  followers  of  Christ,  we  are 
committed  to  the  demonstration  or  conception 
of  this  idea,  by  the  complete  acceptance  of  the 
one  Mind  as  the  only  creative  Principle,  and  of 
the  idea  or  manifestation  of  Life,  Truth,  Love 
as  the  only  presence. 

^Revelation  xxi.,  i. 

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Christ  Jesus  proved  the  truth  and  demonstra- 
bility  of  his  statement,  viz.,  that  God,  Spirit, 
Life  is  the  only  Father.  The  conception  of  the 
deific  presence  and  bringing  forth  of  the  divine 
image  could  come  only  with  the  later  revela- 
tion of  God,  Love,  as  the  only  Mother.  This 
later  revelation  or  "second  coming"'  of  Christ 
is  now  an  actuality.  Our  revered  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  is  proving  the  truth  and  de- 
monstrability  of  her  statement  that  God,  Love, 
is  the  only  Mother.  Christ,  in  his  first  appear- 
ing, or  demonstration,  denied  and  potentially  de- 
stroyed material  propagation.  In  the  second  ap- 
pearing or  demonstration  of  God's  Motherhood, 
represented  in  the  woman,  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
Christ  is  denying  and  destroying  material  con- 
ception. The  lie  of  material  generation,  cor- 
poreality, is  fast  ceasing  to  obtain  any  seeming 
credence,  as  reahty. 

Mrs.  Eddy,  in  her  great  wisdom,  saw  the 
present  hour.     Her  spiritual  vision  beheld  the 

» Message  for  igoo,  page  6. 

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cessation,  the  termination  of  so-called  material 
production,  or  organization.  In  1909  she  wrote 
you: 

Beloved!  you  need  to  watch  and  pray  that  the 
enemy  of  good  cannot  separate  you  from  your 
Leader  and  best  earthly  friend  {Miscellany, 
P-  358). 

Those  who  had  eyes,  spiritual  understanding, 
saw  that  Mrs.  Eddy  was  asking  you  to  handle 
''animal  magnetism  .  .  .  the  opposite  of  divine 
Science,"^  or  the  belief  of  life  in  matter,  which 
is  material  generation  and  so-called  mortal 
existence. 

Mrs.  Eddy  had  reached  the  point  in  her 
demonstration  where,  as  the  Revelator,  she  was 
mentally  conceiving  and  bringing  forth  man  and 
the  universe  as  ''wholly  spiritual."'' 

Having  fully  and  finally  taught  the  one 
Father  and  one  Mother,  as  Principle,  she  must 
bring  forth,  in  concrete  being,  the  phenomenon, 
or  image  of  this  Principle,  the  ideal  man  refiect- 

^  Miscellany,  page  358.  '  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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ing  Spirit.  There  is  a  /aw  of  procedure,  an 
order  in  the  appearing  of  the  myriad  ideas 
composing  the  eternal  universe. 

Beloved  teacher,  as  metaphysicians,  we  look 
for  the  appearing  of  the  "new  heaven  and  .  .  . 
new  earth"  in  the  activity  of  spiritual  under- 
standing and  its  phenomenon,  a  universe  peopled 
with  God's  ideas,  as  perfect  as  their  Principle, 
Life  and  Love. 

In  you,  we,  your  students,  find  this  under- 
standing and  its  effects,  which  bring  in  the  line 
of  spiritual  generation — concepts  built  upon  "a 
wholly  spiritual  foundation.  .  .  .  Spirit  is 
infinite ;  therefore  Spirit  is  all. ' ' '  We  see  in  you 
the  first-born  of  the  spiritual  conception  by  our 
Leader.  She  has  travailed  to  bring  forth  her 
ideal,  which  she  has  expounded  in  her  great 
book.  Science  and  Health.  You  are  the  first  to 
manifest  the  spiritual  mental  power  and  pres- 
ence therein  stated.  You  are  coming  forth  "in 
maturity."^ 

» Miscellany,  page  357.         ^  Science  and  Health,  page  583. 
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Our  Leader's  great  care  has  been  to  deliver 
you;  to  call  you  forth  from  the  confinement 
of  material  conditions.  She  knew,  that  only 
through  your  own  understanding  could  you 
come  to  the  birth,  because  the  ideal  man  is 
spiritual  understanding  and  presence. 

She  knew  your  consciousness  was  rock  sub- 
stance. She  felt  your  thought  and  knew  that 
it  was  truth.  She  recognized  the  granite 
structure  of  your  church,  as  the  evidence,  the 
concrete  expression  of  your  thought  and  knew 
that  it  was  the  outward,  visible  sign,  of  the 
indestructible  nature  of  your  Christ  conscious- 
ness embodied. 

Did  she  not  write  to  you,  ' '  I  leave  my  name 
with  thine  in  unity  and  love"?'  This  solemn 
declaration  formed  the  corner-stone  of  your 
church  and  proved  it  to  be  a  wholly  mental  idea, 
spiritually  conceived  and  brought  forth. 

When  the  pangs  of  her  delivery  were  upon 

'  Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  facing  page 
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her,  she  called  upon  you  and  your  students  to 
begin  ''to  build  ...  on  a  wholly  spiritual 
foundation."  You  and  your  Board  of  Trustees 
replied  to  this  letter.  It  would  be  well  for  all 
calling  themselves  Christian  Scientists,  to  read 
these  letters  as  they  appear  in  the  subsequent 
issue  of  The  Christian  Science  Journal,  volume 
xxvi.,  pp.  696,  697.  They  are  printed  on  pages 
facing  each  other  and  are  a  startling  evidence  of 
your  spiritual  status. 

Had  the  field  of  Christian  Scientists 
developed  spiritual  sense,  they  would  have  seen, 
in  this  correspondence,  that  Mrs.  Eddy's  vision 
was  revealing  to  her  the  dissolution  of  material 
organization  and  that  she  was  calHng  you  forth 
from  the  impending  ruin.  Those  who  did 
apprehend  this  formed  the  nucleus  of  spiritual 
building. 

Your  Leader  knew  that  you  would  stand  the 
acid  test;  that  you  would  allow  everything  to 
dissolve  that  could  not  bear  the  purifying  fires. 

While  the  field  were  looking  for  Mrs.  Eddy  to 
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defend  you,  if  you  were  right,  and  concluding, 
because  of  her  non-interference,  that  you  must 
be  wrong,  the  genuine  Christian  Scientist 
believed,  yes,  understood,  that  Mrs.  Eddy  was 
taking  you  out  of  material  organization  and 
giving  you  freedom  to  rise  with  her  into  '*a 
wholly  spiritual"  consciousness. 

The  present  condition  of  the  so-called  material 
world,  including  the  material  organization,  made 
up  of  those  still  remaining  on  a  material  plane, 
orbelief  of  lifein  matter  and  obeying  the  demands 
of  this  so-called  mind, — those  claiming  to  be  fol- 
lowers of  Christ  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
who  are  under  the  material  law,  which  resists 
the  law  of  Spirit  or  Christ  and  those  that  are 
Christ's;  this  condition,  I  say,  evidences  the 
sudden  destruction  of  a  claim  to  material  life 
and  material  organization.  They  who  have 
followed  their  Leader  and  built  on  a  solid  foun- 
dation have  been  themselves  redeemed  and  are 
redeeming  those  who  are  prepared  to  receive 
Christ,  in  these  latter  days. 
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Already  error  is  rushing  on  to  self-destruction. 
The  world  is  saved.  We  are  revealing  the  new 
heaven  and  new  earth.  The  corner-stone  of  the 
new  creation  is  apparent.  The  understanding, 
which  lays  hold  of  the  substance  truth  that  man 
is  idea  is  symbolized,  yes,  externalized  in  your 
granite  church.  This  great  rock,  that  shelters 
the  seekers  for  Truth  and  spiritual  substance 
idea,  adjoins  your  house,  and  is  indissolubly 
connected  with  it. 

Mrs.  Eddy's  method  of  bringing  you  out 
from  ecclesiastical  government,  that  you  might 
be  free  to  express  what  could  never  be  expressed 
in  any  heretofore  accepted  model,  or  mode,  was 
masterful  and  divinely  inspired. 

Condemned  by  the  materially  minded,  you 
were  free  to  tread  alone  the  unsought  way. 
She  drew  you  to  rise  with  her  to  spiritual  alti- 
tudes, and  the  demonstration  of  love  over  hate. 

It  was  imperative  that  the  law  of  Love  be 
demonstrated.  The  scientific  statement  of 
being,  ''All  is  infinite  Mind  and  its  infinite 
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manifestation"'  must  be  proven  to  be  the  true 
conception  of  man  and  the  universe. 

You  met  your  test,  beloved.  You  are  the 
living  witness  of  the  power  of  love  over  hate. 
You  have  not  been  separated  from  your  Leader 
and  Teacher,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  but  are  fol- 
lowing her  closely  and  have  demonstrated  and 
preserved  her  teaching  and  you  will  continue 
to  do  so,  until  she  manifests  Christ,  the  com- 
pound idea,  the  image  and  likeness  of  the  com- 
pound Principle,  Life  and  Love.  The  world 
shall  recognize  that  the  government  is  upon 
the  shoulder  of  Christ,  who  will  reign  forever 
and  ever,  "King  of  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords, "^ 
with  all  the  glory  and  majesty  of  eternal  man- 
hood and  womanhood. 

In  the  locality  that  human  sense  calls  New 
York  City,  our  great  Leader  laid,  with  you,  the 
corner-stone  of  all  spiritual  building  in  what  she 
named,  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New 
York  City.     It  is  the  first  branch  of  The  Mother 

I  Science  and  Health,  page  468.  =»  I  Timothy  vi.,  15. 

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Church,  the  first  shoot  of  the  vine  to  appear,  the 
first  conception  of  Mother  Love,  which  will 
bring  to  view,  with  all  its  fair  outline,  the  whole 
structure  of  Truth  and  Love,  the  real  universe 
or  spiritual  image,  called  by  our  Leader,  generic 
Man. 

Thus,  this  church  of  your  building,  beloved, 
signalizes  the  first-born  branch  of  The  Mother 
Church.  It  is  for  this  reason  that  our  Leader, 
in  her  great  letter  to  you  and  your  church, 
authorizes  the  enlarging  of  our  "phylacteries."^ 
We  are  building,  in  line  with  the  corner-stone, 
**a  wholly  spiritual  foundation." 

May  I  recall  to  your  thought,  that  the  "phy- 
lacteries" were  instituted  by  Moses  and  were 
worn  in  symbolic  acknowledgment  of  the 
redemption  of  the  first-born  of  Truth  and  the 
destruction  of  the  first-born  of  error. 

What  a  stupendous  fact  is  unfolding  to  our 
spiritual  vision !  Here,  in  this,  our  own  city,  in 
our  day,  is  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis  being 

*  Miscellany,  page  357. 

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revealed  as  having  been  established  from  the 
beginning  by  the  law  of  God.  To  Moses,  the 
earth  (compound  spiritual  idea)  was  without 
form  and  void.  But  the  Spirit  of  God  has 
moved  on  the  waters  of  so-called  mortal  mind 
(recorded  in  the  second  chapter  of  Genesis): 

Divine  Science,  the  Word  of  God,  saith  to  the 
darkness  upon  the  face  of  error,  * '  God  is  All-in- 
all,"  and  the  light  of  ever-present  Love  illumines 
the  universe      {Science  and  Health,  p.  503). 

The  darkness,  chaos  and  old  night  of  the 
Adamic  record,  upon  which  is  founded  scholastic 
theology,  materia  medica,  natural  science,  falsely 
so-called — in  one  word,  the  lying  claim  of 
material  generation,  is  fleeing  before  the  com- 
mand of  God,  ''Let  there  be  light."^  The  radi- 
ant glory  of  the  demonstration  of  the  statement 
of  man  and  the  universe,  as  given  in  the  sublime 
precession  of  seven  days,  is  bringing  to  light  the 
reality  of  all  things. 

^Genesis  i.,  3. 

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There  is  no  shadow  of  doubt  that  the  Christ, 
or  ideal  manifestation  of  God's  "infinite  self- 
containment  and  immortal  wisdom"^  is  immi- 
nent and  is  joyously  anticipated  by  the  Wisemen, 
the  genuine  Christian  Scientists  of  to-day.  No 
logger  is  Truth  a  cold  abstraction,  a  generalized 
statement.  We  feel  the  pulsating  presence  of 
the  living  God.  Principle  is  demonstrated 
quite  to  the  point  of  appearing.  Our  Leader  is 
presenting  her  spiritual  concept,  embodied  in 
her  student,  thus  establishing  spiritual  gener- 
ation ''without  beginning  of  years  or  end  of 
days"^  whose  Father- Mother,  Life  and  Love, 
God,  continues  to  manifest  His  infinite  ideas, 
fulfilling  the  words  of  our  beloved  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  "Creation  is  ever  appear- 
ing, and  must  ever  continue  to  appear  from  the 
-nature  of  its  inexhaustible  source."^ 

Thus    the    spiritual    generation    is    forever 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  519. 

2  Science  and  Health,  page  333. 

3  Science  and  Health,  page  507. 

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established  and  materiality,  false  generation,  is 
disappearing  under  the  blaze  of  Truth  and 
Love. 

The  ''city  [that]  lieth  foursquare"'*^  is  here. 
It  has  no  boundary,  no  limit,  because  it  is 
spiritual.  In  your  teaching  of  Christian  Science 
the  four  cardinal  points  of  this  spiritual  con- 
sciousness are  understood  and  are  being  demon- 
strated by  you  and  your  students. 

The  stone  of  belief  of  life  in  matter  has  been 
rolled  away.  The  stone,  or  Rock,  Christ,  is  for- 
ever revealed.  The  words  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
in  1894,  at  "The  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of 
The  Mother  Church,"  are  as  follows: 

LAUS   DEO!  3 

Laus  Deo,  it  is  done! 

Rolled  away  from  loving  heart 

Is  a  stone. 
Lifted  higher,  we  depart, 

Having  one. 

^  Revelation  xxi.,  16.  ^  Science  and  Health,  page  575. 

3  Poems,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  76. 

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Laus  Deo, — on  this  rock 
(Heaven  chiselled  squarely  good) 

Stands  His  church, — 
God  is  Love,  and  understood 

By  His  flock. 

Laus  Deo,  night  star-lit 
Slumbers  not  in  God's  embrace; 

Be  awake; 
Like  this  stone,  be  in  thy  place: 

Stand,  not  sit. 

Grave,  silent,  steadfast  stone, 
Dirge  and  song  and  shoutings  low 

In  thy  heart 
Dwell  serene, — and  sorrow  ?    No, 

It  has  none, 

Laus  Deo ! 

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New  York  City. 

November  ii,  1920. 
Beloved  teacher: — 

When  I  first  began  to  study  Christian  Science, 
there  was  one  point  that  I  could  not  understand. 
It  was  in  regard  to  the  question  asked  you,  at 
the  time  Mrs.  Eddy  rose  beyond  our  vision, 
viz.,  "What  would  you  do  with  the  belief  of  a 
person  who  seemed  to  have  died?"  In  one  of 
your  pamphlets.  Reply  to  a  Letter,  this  point 
comes  up  and  you  say : 

You  ask  what  I  ''would  do  with  that  belief?" 
Had  the  moment  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  emergence  beyond 
our  material  vision  found  me  in  a  so-called  mate- 
rial sense,  externalizing  a  material  concept  of 
Mrs.  Eddy  and  regarding  a  material  so-called  body 
as  real,  doubtless  I  would  have  been  found  among 
those  who  buried  the  * '  belief  "  and  would  have  aided 
in  the  thrilling  experiences  of  a  "tomb,"  and  from 

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the  contemplation  of  a  "cemetery"  and  a  "monu- 
ment" I  would  have  increased  a  material  concept 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

I  thought  over  this  at  the  time,  and  realized 
that  I  did  not  grasp  your  meaning.  It  is  only 
recently,  that  my  divine  nature  has  been  suf- 
ficiently developed  to  understand  spiritually 
''the  scientific  statement  of  being,"'  viz.: 

There  is  no  life,  truth,  intelligence,  nor  sub- 
stance in  matter.  All  is  infinite  Mind  and  its 
infinite  manifestation,  for  God  is  All-in-all.  Spirit 
is  immortal  Truth;  matter  is  mortal  error.  Spirit 
is  the  real  and  eternal;  matter  is  the  unreal  and 
temporal.  Spirit  is  God,  and  man  is  His  image  and 
likeness.  Therefore  man  is  not  material;  he  is 
spiritual. 

Then  it  dawned  upon  me,  that  you  understood 
the  nothingness  of  matter  and  the  allness  of 
Mind,  and  that  there  was  no  "behef  "  to  bury. 
I  grasped  the  spiritual  fact  that  it  was  only 
material  sense  which  was  embodied  in  a  belief 

^  Science  and  Health,  page  468. 
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of  matter,  and  was  not  the  real  idea  of  God, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy.  It  seems  to  me  that  some 
of  us  unconsciously  drift  into  the  habit  of  saying 
rather  carelessly,  '"there  is  no  matter,'  but 
such  and  such  seems  to  be  the  case."  Thus 
we  contradict  our  premise  at  the  very  outset. 
Dear  teacher,  you  are  continually  warning  us 
against  thinking  or  talking  from  two  premises. 

Mrs.  Eddy  teaches  that  "matter  is  mortal 
error" — nothingness.  A  few  months  ago  I 
wrote  you  a  comparison  between  Christ  Jesus' 
experiences  and  your  own.  Carrying  out  that 
thought,  may  I  add  one  or  two  points  that  have 
since  occurred  to  me? 

Christ  Jesus'  demonstration  of  the  power  of 
spiritual  sense  over  the  illusion  of  death — 
Mrs.  Eddy's  discovery  of  the  teachings  of  Christ 
Jesus  in  her  revelation  of  the  spiritual  thought- 
force,  by  which  Christ  Jesus  performed  his 
mighty  works  and  her  estabHshment,  in  this  age, 
of  Christian  Science — and  your  own  demon- 
strations of  the  power  of  the  Mind  of  Christ  to 
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nullify  the  opposition  and  malice  of  the  carnally 
minded  in  their  ''endeavour  to  crush  out  of  a 
career  its  divine  destiny,"' — these  demonstra- 
tions are  marvellous  in  their  scientific  proof  of 
the  power  or  ''dominion"  with  which  God 
endowed  man,  whom  He  made  in  His  own 
image  and  likeness.  This  "dominion"  Christ 
Jesus  proved  to  be  the  understanding  and  ex- 
ercise of  spiritual  thought-force,  emanating  from 
God,  Life  and  Love,  to  and  through  man.  There 
seem  to  be  three  great  culminating  steps  in  the 
completion  of  the  proof  of  immortahty: 

I — Crucifixion. 

2 — Resurrection. 

3 — Ascension. 

As  "progress  is  the  law  of  infinity,""  neither 
of  the  three  demonstrators  produced  the  same 
phenomena  as  his  predecessor,  in  working  the 
problem  of  scientific  being.  -Christ  Jesus  ap- 
peared, to  material  sense,  to  have  been  nailed 
to  a  material  cross.     He  appeared,  to  material 

I  No  and  Yes,  page  34.  ^  Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  15. 
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sense,  to  have  been  placed  in  a  material  tomb, 
from  which,  to  mortals,  he  seemed  to  have 
rolled  away  a  material  stone. 

What  of  our  Leader's  crucifixion?  There 
was  no  wooden  cross,  no  spear  thrust,  no  thorns, 
no  cup  of  wormwood  and  gall,  but  no  one  can 
more  understandingly  appreciate  than  you,  the 
poignancy  of  the  agony  of  her  crucifixion,  as 
she  emerged  out  oi  the  fleshly  belief  of  life  in 
matter  and  grasped  her  divine  individuality  as 
God's  idea.  As  Jesus  cried  out  to  his  Father, 
*'My  God,  why  hast  Thou  forsaken  me?"'  so 
Mrs.  Eddy,  in  the  transitional  moment  of  her 
emergence  out  of  material  sense,  turned  to 
Principle  and  declared,  ''God  is  my  life." 

You  will  remember  that  at  one  time,  Mrs.  Eddy 
wrote  you,  asking  that  you  let  nothing  ''turn 
you  away  from  me  in  this  hour  of  crucifixion."^ 
She  knew  that  her  great  work,  the  teaching  of 

^Matthew  xxvii.,  46. 

2  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  379. 

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demonstrable  Christian  Science,  would  have 
been  in  vain  had  she  failed  to  bring  forth  a 
student-demonstrator  of  divine  metaphysics, 
one  who  would  be  able  to  endure  to  the  end,  the 
fiery  purification,  or  sin's  revenge  upon  its 
destroyer.  You  did  not  fail  her,  beloved,  but 
watched  with  her,  until  she  rose  beyond  our 
mental  vision.  The  Master,  upon  leaving  his 
disciples,  said,  ''Lo,  I  am  with  you  alway, 
even  unto  the  end."'  The  spiritual  identity  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy  never  left  the  earth,  and  will 
reappear  in  the  image  and  likeness  of  God, 
thus  demonstrating  the  ideal  man — the  second 
coming  of  Christ. 

After  the  crucifixion,  or  fiery  purification, 
which  destroys  the  material  senses,  or  the  be- 
Hef  of  life  in  matter,  the  ascending  state  is 
inevitable. 

You  will  recall  the  following  words  which 
your  Leader  and  Teacher  addressed  to  you  dur- 
ing one  of  your  visits  to  her,  * '  Do  not  look  for 

'  Matthew  xxviii.,  20. 

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me  in  this ' '  (pointing  to  her  physique) .  * '  I  have 
risen."  You  replied,  ''I  do  not  look  for  you  in 
matter,  and  is  not  your  resurrection  my  resur- 
rection also?"  Mrs.  Eddy  answered,  ''Yes,  it 
is."  That  statement  meant  exactly  what  the 
words  expressed.  Mary  Baker  Eddy  was  no 
longer  in  the  tomb — matter.  Let  those  who 
believed  her  to  be  a  fleshly  woman  continue  to 
do  so,  if  they  must,  but  to  you  it  was  given  to 
know,  that  again  the  stone  of  beHef ,  that  matter 
is  man,  had  been  rolled  away  from  the  sepulchre 
and  you,  through  unequalled  fidelity  and  love, 
were  able  to  realize  that  it  was  "the  resurrec- 
tion morn;"^  and  following  her  loving  desire 
you  were  her  ''Mary."' 
The  Leader  says  in  Science  and  Health: 

They  celebrate  their  Lord's  victory  over 
death,  his  probation  in  the  flesh  after  death, 
its  exemplification  of  human  probation,  and 
his  spiritual  and  final  ascension  above  matter, 
or  the  flesh,  when  he  rose  out  of  material  sight. 

^  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  403. 

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The  continual  rising  from  a  material,  false  sense 
of  existence  to  the  spiritual,  divine  and  eternal 
consciousness  of  unity  with  Principle,  or  Spirit, 
seems  to  me  to  have  been  that  period  which 
Miss  Huse  analyzes,  in  such  a  helpful  way,  in 
one  of  her  letters,  viz.:  "the  abandonment  of 
Pleasant  View,  the  disbanding  of  the  Execu- 
tive Members,  the  abolishing  of  the  Communion 
in  her  Church,  the  closing  of  the  Mother's 
Room."  During  this  "probationary"  period 
Jesus  walked  and  talked  with  his  disciples. 
During  this  transitional  state  from  the  material 
to  the  spiritual  sense,  Mrs.  Eddy  walked  and 
talked  with  her  disciples.  How  many  recog- 
nized and  acknowledged  Christ  at  his  first 
appearing?  Christ  asked,  "When  the  Son  of 
man  cometh,  shall  he  find  faith  on  the  earth  ?"^ 
Mrs.  Eddy  looked  to  you  to  be  her  "Mary," 
and  you  fulfilled  her  desire,  when,  at  the  hour 
she  rose  beyond  the  spiritual  apprehension  of 
her  students,  you  declared,  ' '  Mary  Baker  Eddy 

*  Luke  xviii.,  8. 

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never  died,  never  was  placed  in  a  tomb,  never 
was  buried." 

How  many  understood  Christ  at  his  appear- 
ing after  the  crucifixion?  How  many  under- 
stand Mrs.  Eddy's  teaching  that  ''man  is  not 
material ;  he  is  spiritual ' '  ?  Did  they  not  rather 
see  their  own  concept  of  the  human  Jesus? 
Have  they  not  held  their  own  material  concept 
over  Mrs.  Eddy?  From  the  time  Mrs.  Eddy 
closed,  one  after  another,  the  activities  which 
comprised  the  material  organization,  she 
thought  and  spoke  from  a  wholly  spiritual 
concept.  I  now  imderstand  her  words  to  her 
"dear  brethren  in  New  York:" 

When  my  dear  brethren  in  New  York  desire  to 
build  higher, — to  enlarge  their  phylacteries  and 
demonstrate  Christian  Science  to  a  higher  ex- 
tent,—they  must  begin  on  a  wholly  spiritual 
foundation,  than  which  there  is  no  other,  and 
proportionately  estimate  their  success  and  glory 
of  achievement  only  as  they  build  upon  the  rock 
of  Christ,  the  spiritual  foundation.  This  will  open 
the  way,  widely  and  impartially,  to  their  never- 
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ending  success, — to  salvation  and  eternal  Christian 
Science. 

Spirit  is  infinite;  therefore  Spirit  is  all.  "There 
is  no  matter  "  is  not  only  the  axiom  of  true  Christian 
Science,  but  it  is  the  only  basis  upon  which  this 
Science  can  be  demonstrated.  ^ 

She  found  you  ready  to  respond  to  a  higher 
call  to  come  out  from  the  material  senses  and 
material  organization  and  build  '*on  a  wholly 
spiritual  foundation"  or  consciousness.  I  now 
see  that  when  the '  *  Composite  Letter  "  "^  was  pub- 
lished, which  Mrs.  Eddy  put  out  to  the  field  as  a 
test,  it  was  a  sifting  of  her  followers.  It  was 
the  last  bugle  call  to  any  in  the  field  who  might 
understand,  to  come  and  join  those  ''dear 
brethren  in  New  York"  who  were  willing  and 
ready  to  begin  to  ''build  .  .  .  on  a  wholly 
spiritual  foundation,"  and  strive  to  meet  the 
demands  of  absolute  Christian  Science  and 
thus   establish   the   kingdom   of   heaven — the 

^  Miscellany^  page  357. 

'  Vital  Issues  in  Christian  Science  With  Facsimile  Letters  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  page  147. 

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reign  of  Christ,  Life,  Truth,  and  Love  on 
earth. 

Then  came  the  wonder  of  wonders.  You, 
dearest,  had  found  your  Leader  in  Mind.  When 
the  next  great  step  was  taken  you  were  prepared 
and  what  the  materialists  called  the  death  of 
Mrs.  Eddy,  you,  filled  with  divine  perception 
from  God,  proclaimed  to  be  the  Christ  Mary's 
ascension.  Her  divine  ever-presence  remains 
for  spiritual  sense  to  reveal.  This  spiritualiza- 
tion  of  thought  is  the  work  of  genuine  Christian 
Scientists.  There  was  nothing  to  bury  and  you 
understood  it.  Materialists  buried  their  con- 
cept of  the  Leader.  With  Elijah  there  was 
nothing  to  bury.  Take  the  other  extreme,  the 
carnal  Jezebel.  When  Jehu  sent  to  bury  her, 
they  perceived  that  animality  (material  sense) 
had  destroyed  itself,  and  * '  they  found  no  more 
of  her  than  the  skull,  and  the  feet,  and  the 
palms  of  her  hands."' 

Dear  teacher,  I  am  convinced  that  we,  your 

^  II  Kings  ix.,  35. 

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students,  must  thoroughly  grasp  this  fact,  that 
there  is  no  belief,  no  matter.  At  Christ  Jesus'  as- 
cension he,  having  ''waited  until  the  mortal  or 
fleshly  sense  had  relinquished  the  belief  of  sub- 
stance-matter, and  spiritual  sense  had  quenched 
all  earthly  yearnings,"^  knew  there  was  nothing 
but  God  and  His  ideas,  in  spite  of  the  fact 
that  a  short  time  before  he  had  seemed  to  eat 
material  food  with  them.  There  was  no  belief- 
body  and  the  disciples,  responding  to  his  stu- 
pendous reflection,  were  so  spiritualized  for  a 
moment  that  their  own  human  concept  of  Jesus 
was  dissolved,  and  they  realized  that  Christ, 
the  substance  idea,  the  Son  of  God,  was  the 
only  reality.  As  the  Leader  tells  us,  they  did 
not  retain  this  realization,  therefore  they  could 
not  embody  the  spiritual  Christ,  their  Master. 

Mary  Baker  Eddy  knew  that  to  complete  the 
work,  more  than  a  brief  flash  of  understanding 
would  be  necessary  on  the  part  of  her  followers, 
to  go  through  this  crucial  period  of  separation 

I  Science  and  Healthy  page  314. 
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from  the  material  organization  and  the  persecu- 
tion of  the  materialists  or  the  unillumined,  which 
would  follow.  So  she  watched  and  waited  to 
develop  a  true  disciple,  one  who  could  see  the 
nothingness  of  every  phase  of  the  fleshly  belief- 
man  and  the  belief -world,  and  whose  spiritual 
vision  could  never  be  dimmed. 

The  test  came.  Could  you  see  her  as  Love's 
idea  when,  to  human  sense,  she  seemed  to  leave 
you  to  prove  your  spiritual  understanding  of 
her  teachings  and  endure  the  contradiction  of 
the  "blind  leaders  of  the  blind"?'  She  knew, 
and  you  knew,  that  only  through  your  own 
demonstration,  could  you  win  and  wear  the 
crown  of  immortality.  She  knew  that  you 
would  never  yield  to  the  persecution  which  must 
test  you.  You  had  long  ceased  to  look  for  an- 
other to  do  your  work.  '  *  Person  was  not  in  the 
problem.  Principle  must  be  demonstrated." 
And  it  was.  So  of  the  three  steps,  Crucifixion, 
Resurrection,  Ascension,  only  one  included  any 

^  Matthew  xv.,  14. 

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physical    manifestation — the    Ascension.     The 
other  two  were  experienced  wholly  mentally. 

Then,  beloved  teacher,  your  hour  had  come. 
Advancing  from  that  higher  vantage  ground  of 
realization  to  which  the  Leader  had  led  you  and 
from  which  she  had  ascended,  you  lifted  the 
banner  of  immortality,  and  defying  the  whole 
belief -world,  proclaimed  that ' '  Mary  Baker  Eddy 
never  died."     Your  awful  crucifixion  had  taken 
place.      Then  came  the  resurrection  and  now 
is  your   ascension    into   higher   spiritual  illu- 
mination and  demonstration  of   perfect   love. 
The  three  great  steps  are  this  time  taken  with- 
out any  concession  to  material  precedent.     You 
are  revealing,  for  yourself,  the  spiritual  uni- 
verse, and  have  won  a  signal  victory  over  the 
enemy  of  good.     Then,  oh  what  zeal,  what  con- 
secration, what  spirituaHzation  of  thought  are 
necessary  on  our  part  to  entitle  us  to  be  called 
Christian  Scientists  according  to  the  teachings 
of  Mary  Baker  Eddy  and  you,  her  faithful  stu- 
dent, our  teacher. 

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We  must  realize  that  there  is  no  matter. 

We  must  realize  that  there  is  no  time. 

We  must  prove  the  omnipotence  of  Love  in 
reflection. 

May  I  tell  you  of  a  thought  that  has  brought 
that  sense  of  *'no  time"  to  me  very  forcibly? 
Belief  says  that  matter  is  evolved  from  slime 
and  protoplasm  and  is  embodied  in  a  mortal 
belief -man,  and  that  this  process  took  about 
seventy  million  years  to  produce  the  first  mani- 
festation, or  mortal.  Then,  with  a  striking  lack 
of  logic,  they  go  on  to  say,  that  a  child,  before  it 
is  born,  goes  through,  in  its  embryonic  state,  all 
the  stages  of  evolution,  and  in  this  way  this  is 
accomplished  in  nine  months!  If  they  can 
reduce  a  process  requiring  millions  of  years 
to  a  period  of  nine  months,  they  can  very 
quickly  reduce  nine  months  to  nothing,  and 
"blot  out  the  material  race  of  Adam,"^ 
that  sins,  sickens  and  dies.  That  which 
claims  to  have  been  evolved  from  dust  never 

^Message  for  igoi,  page  5. 
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was  and  never  would  be  anything  but  dust — 
nothingness. 

Some  of  us  seem  to  think  of  the  ideal  existence 
as  of  a  sphere,  or  an  orange,  that  has  been  cut 
through  the  middle  and  the  two  hemispheres  of 
perfection  separated  by  what  is  called  time. 
Oh,  I  long  to  reaHze  that  Life  is  a  perfect  whole ! 
Then  the  sense  of  time  dissolves  and  the  two 
hemispheres  come  together  in  a  beautiful  unity. 

There  is  no  space. 

I  enclose  a  Httle  article  which  is  copied  from 
a  magazine  called  Popular  Astronomy,  which 
seems  to  me  interesting  because  the  author  is 
trying  to  describe  a  sense  of  unlimited  vision 
which  the  Leader  predicted.  In  Science  and 
Health,  she  says,  "The  astronomer  will  no  longer 
look  up  to  the  stars, — he  will  look  out  from  them 
upon  the  universe." 

Dear,  patient  teacher,  I  apologize  for  this 
long  letter.  Forgive  me,  but  I  am  so  over- 
whelmed with  the  sense  of  what  you  have  done 
and  are  doing  that  I  keep  longing  to  express, 
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even  inadequately,  the  appreciation,  gratitude, 
and  the  boundless  love  I  feel  for  your  proof  of 
the  power  of  love  over  hatred,  envy  and  all  evil, 
which  would  have  destroyed  you,  but  for  your 
impregnable  armor  of  divine  love. 
Faithfully  your  student, 


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